Author. He is the author of several books on the subject of the Jewish faith, including his 1965 book, "Not by "Might, nor by Power": The Zionist betrayal of Judaism." This text is considered "the first revisionist history of Zionism." Born Moshe Mnuchin, to a notable orthodox Jewish family in Gomel, Belarus, he changed his surname to Menuhin in 1919 when he and his wife became American citizen. He was the great-great-grandson of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism, an ultra-conservative group, who speak Yiddish. At age eleven, he moved to Jerusalem, studying Yeshiva and subsequently, was a student at Gymnasia Herzliya, in the inaugural class of the first Zionist high school in Tel Aviv. In 1913, he immigrated to the United States to pursue a higher education at New York University, studying education, mathematics, and political science. In 1918 he and his wife with their two-year-old son moved to San Francisco, there he taught Hebrew. Although a very controversy subject in the Jewish World, he was an outspoken anti-Zionist, one who does not support the 1948 Jewish state of Israel and the fighting between the Jewish population and the indigenous Palestinians. He helped establish the Jewish Alternative to Zionism, Incorporation, to conduct an educational program applying Judaism's values of justice and knowledge to the conflict. He authored "Decadence of Judaism in our Time" with the second edition printed in 1969, "The Menuhin Saga" in 1983 and "A Jewish Child in Czarist Russia" a series of tapes in 1976. He is the father of world-known violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Both of his daughters, Hephzibah and Yaltah are accomplished pianist, and Yaltah is a published poet.
Author. He is the author of several books on the subject of the Jewish faith, including his 1965 book, "Not by "Might, nor by Power": The Zionist betrayal of Judaism." This text is considered "the first revisionist history of Zionism." Born Moshe Mnuchin, to a notable orthodox Jewish family in Gomel, Belarus, he changed his surname to Menuhin in 1919 when he and his wife became American citizen. He was the great-great-grandson of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism, an ultra-conservative group, who speak Yiddish. At age eleven, he moved to Jerusalem, studying Yeshiva and subsequently, was a student at Gymnasia Herzliya, in the inaugural class of the first Zionist high school in Tel Aviv. In 1913, he immigrated to the United States to pursue a higher education at New York University, studying education, mathematics, and political science. In 1918 he and his wife with their two-year-old son moved to San Francisco, there he taught Hebrew. Although a very controversy subject in the Jewish World, he was an outspoken anti-Zionist, one who does not support the 1948 Jewish state of Israel and the fighting between the Jewish population and the indigenous Palestinians. He helped establish the Jewish Alternative to Zionism, Incorporation, to conduct an educational program applying Judaism's values of justice and knowledge to the conflict. He authored "Decadence of Judaism in our Time" with the second edition printed in 1969, "The Menuhin Saga" in 1983 and "A Jewish Child in Czarist Russia" a series of tapes in 1976. He is the father of world-known violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Both of his daughters, Hephzibah and Yaltah are accomplished pianist, and Yaltah is a published poet.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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