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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, Malcolm Rifkind, Henri Temianka, Ivor Cutler, Jerry Sadowitz, Muriel Spark, Kurt Hahn, Lord George Gordon, Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, Charles Stross, Eric Woolfson, List of Scottish Jews, Ronni Ancona, David Daiches, Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, Muriel Gray, Louis Isaac Rabinowitz, Goldbergs, Philip Cohen, Cecil Philip Taylor, Philip Hobsbaum, Hugo Rifkind, Jeremy Isaacs, Charles Frank, Derek Shulman, Ivor Tiefenbrun, J. M. Robson, Isaac Wolfson, Ilan Hall, Benno Schotz, Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, George Sassoon, Nancy Morris, Leonard Schapiro, Ian Livingston, Asher Asher, Hyman Levy, Isaac Michaelson, Hannah Frank, A.G.G. Asher, Gary Jacobs, Ray Shulman, Myer Galpern, Horace Phillips, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Alexander Asher, Chaim Bermant, Jack D. Dunitz, Peter Kravitz, Monty Finniston, Arnold Brown, Stefan Reif, Phil Shulman, Mayer Hillman, David Brown, Jenni Calder. Excerpt: Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind KCMG QC MP (born 21 June 1946) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Kensington. He served in various roles as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Scotland (1986-1990), Defence Secretary (1992-1995) and Foreign Secretary (1995-1997). Rifkind was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh Pentlands from 1974 to 1997, when his party lost power and he lost his seat to the Labour Party. He attempted - unsuccessfully - to be re-elected in Pentlands in 2001; the constituency was abolished before the 2005 general election and he was adopted, and subsequently elected, as the Conservative candidate for Kensington and Chelsea. He announced his intention to seek the leadership of the party before the 2005 Conservative Party leadership election, but withdrew before balloting co...