Although Lionel retained the older, traditional pronunciation of their surname as 'dyke-iz' /ˈdaɪ χ (or k) ɪz/, David returned from the USA with the Americanized 'day-ches', /ˈdeɪ tʃɪz/. His brother was the prominent Edinburgh QC Lionel Henry Daiches. He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.ĭaiches is the father of Jenni Calder, also a Scottish literary historian. He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community, and founder of the city's branch of B'nai Brith. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of World War I, where his father, Rev. He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background-the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture. English and Scottish literature and cultureĭavid Daiches CBE (2 September 1912 – 15 July 2005) was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer.
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