Claude Montefiore
Claude Montefiore | |
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Sir Moses Montefiore (paternal great-uncle) |
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, also Goldsmid–Montefiore or just Goldsmid Montefiore
Family
Claude Montefiore was the youngest son of Nathaniel Montefiore and Emma Goldsmid. He had two sisters, Alice Julia and Charlotte Rosalind and one brother, Leonard (1853-1879).[2] He was the great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore.
Montefiore's first wife was Therese Alice Schorstein, who had been a student at Girton College, Cambridge. She died in 1889 and, two years later, he endowed a prize in her memory – the Therese Montefiore Memorial Prize.[3] Their son was Leonard G. Montefiore. Montefiore remarried at the West London Synagogue on 24 July 1902. His second wife was Florence Fyfe Brereton Ward, daughter of Richard James Ward, and a Vice-Mistress at Girton, having started there as Librarian.[4][3]
Education
Part of Montefiore's childhood was spent at his family's
He was educated at
Teachings and positions
Among Jewish religious leaders, Montefiore was unusual for the time and energy he devoted to the study of Christianity. He provoked considerable controversy for what was perceived by many to be an overly sympathetic attitude towards Jesus and
He assisted Rev. Simeon Singer in preparing the standard Anglo-Jewish prayer book. This was acknowledged in the original preface, but his name was removed from the preface of the second edition.
Montefiore was one of the leading authorities on questions of education. Montefiore was mainly instrumental in enabling Jewish pupil teachers at elementary schools to enjoy the advantages of training in classes held for the purpose at the universities.
Montefiore showed great sympathy with all liberal tendencies in Jewish religious movements in London and was president of the Jewish Religious Union. He was president of the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1899–1900.
He ranked as one of the leading philanthropists in the Anglo-Jewish community and held office in various important bodies.
Group involvement
As a revered scholar, philanthropist and spiritual authority, Claude Montefiore belongs to that important group of learned laymen who have sought to revolutionise
Functions
- Member of the School Board for London
- President of the Froebel Societyand the Jews' Infant School, London (1904), and a member of numerous other educational bodies.
- Member of the council of Jews' College
- Member of the Jewish Religious Education Board
- Acting President of University College Southampton (1910-1913) and the President from 1913 to 1934.[1][5]
- President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (1892-1921)[1]
- Member of the Council of the Jewish Colonization Association.[6]
Works
- The Hibbert Lectures; On the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebrews (London: Williams & Norgate, 1893).
- The Bible for Home Reading (London: Macmillan, 1899).
- Some Elements in the Religious Teaching of Jesus (London: Macmillan, 1910).
- Outlines of Liberal Judaism (London: Macmillan, 1912).
- Judaism and St. Paul; Two Essays (London: Max Goschen Ltd, 1914).
- Liberal Judaism and Hellenism and Other Essays (London: Macmillan, 1918).
- Race, nation, religion and the Jews (Keiley: Rydal Press, 1918)
- The Old Testament and After (London: Macmillan, 1923).
- The Synoptic Gospels, 2nd edn, 2 vols (London: Macmillan, 1927).
- Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams (New York: Jewish Institute of Religion, 1927).
- Rabbinic Literature and Gospel Teachings (London: Macmillan, 1930).
- The Synoptic Gospels (New York: K.T.A.V. Publishing House, 1968), with ‘Prolegomenon’ by Lou H Silberman.
- A Rabbinic Anthology (ed., w. Herbert Loewe, London: Macmillan, 1938).
References
- ^ a b c Papers of C.J. Goldsmid-Montefiore. archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk
- ^ The Peerage
- ^ ISBN 9781108015318
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36830. London. 26 July 1902. p. 1.
- ^ ISBN 9781136313264.
- ^ Anglo-Jewish Association at JewishEncyclopedia.com. See last paragraph
- ISBN 0-85303-369-2) (London: Vallentine Mitchell Press, 2002).
- Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros, Treasures from the London Library: Claude Montefiore: a cautious revolutionary, History Today, http://www.historytoday.com/dunia-garcia-ontiveros/treasures-london-library-claude-montefiore-cautious-revolutionary
- Edward Kessler, Claude Montefiore and Liberal Judaism, European Judaism, Vol. 34, No. 1 [1] Archived 7 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- Steven Bayme, Claude Montefiore, Lily Montagu and the Origins of the Jewish Religious Union, Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol. 27, (1978–1980), pp. 61–71 JSTOR 29778897