Born in Maida Vale, London, to a family of German Jewish and Polish Jewish backgrounds, Gollancz was the son of a wholesale jeweller and the nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir See more

Gollancz formed his own publishing company in 1927, publishing works by writers such as Ford Madox Ford and George Orwell, who wrote that "Gollancz is of course part of the Communism … See more

In addition to his highly successful publishing business, Gollancz was a prolific writer on a variety of subjects, and put his ideas into action by establishing campaigning groups. The Left Book Club was not only a book club run along commercial lines, … See more

In 1919, Victor married Ruth Lowy, an artist who had studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks. The couple had five daughters among them Vita Gollancz, an artist; See more

• The Making of Women, Oxford Essays in Feminism (1918)
• Industrial Ideals (1920)
• The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of the Jews in Germany (1936) See more

• War on Want's history page
• Paul Foot, Victor Gollancz: From Marx to Muddle Socialist Worker Review, 102, (1987)
• Catalogue of Gollancz's papers, held at the See more