{"id":2485,"date":"2019-07-10T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=2485"},"modified":"2019-07-19T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:11:16","slug":"rubinstein-harold-frederick-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=2485","title":{"rendered":"Rubinstein, Harold Frederick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harold Frederick Rubinstein was a British solicitor, playwright, and editor. He was born in 1891 into an old Anglo-Jewish family and founded the London law firm of Rubinstein, Nash &amp; Co., which is now known as Rubinstein, Callingham, Polden &amp; Gale. The firm specialised in literary cases and defended Radclyffe Hall&#8217;s 1928 novel <em>The Well of Loneliness<\/em>. Rubinstein also wrote plays, including <em>The Dickens of Gray&#8217;s Inn<\/em>&nbsp;(1931),&nbsp;<em>Israel Set Free<\/em>&nbsp;(1936),&nbsp;<em>Unearthly Gentleman<\/em>&nbsp;(1965), and&nbsp;<em>Shylock&#8217;s End<\/em>&nbsp;(1970). Furthermore, he edited <em>Four Jewish Plays<\/em>&nbsp;(1948). His son Michael Rubinstein also worked as a solicitor and specialised in defending authors and publishers: in 1960, he acted for Penguin Books in the obscenity trial of  D.H. Lawrence&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover<\/em>. Hilary Rubinstein, another son, was a well-known literary agent, publisher, and author who compiled the anthology <em>The Complete Insomniac<\/em>&nbsp;(1974). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harold Frederick Rubinstein died in 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Frederick Rubinstein was a British solicitor, playwright, and editor. He was born in 1891 into an old Anglo-Jewish family and founded the London law firm of Rubinstein, Nash &amp; Co., which is now known as Rubinstein, Callingham, Polden &amp; Gale. The firm specialised in literary cases and defended Radclyffe Hall&#8217;s 1928 novel The Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":565,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2485\/revisions\/2763"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}