Early Life
Neuburg was born at Islington into and raised in an upper middle-class Jewish family. His father, Carl Neuburg (b. 1857 in Pilsen, Bohemia), a commission agent from Vienna, abandoned the family shortly after his birth. He was brought up by his mother, Jeanette Neuburg née Jacobs (1855-1939), and his maternal aunts. He was educated at the City of London School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read medieval and modern languages.
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