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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. 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. David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer.