Edwin Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel
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Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel
The son of Beatrice Franklin and Herbert Samuel – Palestine's first high commissioner – he was the father of Professor David Samuel and Dan Samuel.
Samuel was educated at
As a viscount, he served as a peer in the House of Lords. One of his significant acts was to have the law that forbade marriage between a woman and her brother-in-law repealed. His explicit intent was to allow a man to fulfil his responsibility under the Judaic Biblical law of levirate marriage, as described in the Book of Deuteronomy, whereby the brother of a man who dies childless must marry the widow.
Lord Samuel was the initiator of the Knesset Menorah project which eventually led to the huge bronze candelabrum presented by the British parliament to the State of Israel in 1956.
References
- ^ Isseroff, Ami (2005). "Zionism and Israel – Encyclopedic Dictionary: Jewish Legion (Hagdud Ha'ivri, Gdud Ha'ivri) Definition". The Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Zionism and Israel. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- ^ Edwin Samuel, A Lifetime in Jerusalem, 1970, Jacket blurb, and p. 28
Further reading
- Edwin Samuel: A Lifetime in Jerusalem. The Memoirs of the Second Viscount Samuel (Transaction Publishers, 1970).