Herbert Bentwich
Herbert Bentwich (originally Bentwitch; 1856 in
He was an authority on
Bentwich was a founder of the
Susannah Bentwich had died in London in 1915, and Herbert died at his home in Rehavia on 25 June 1932. He was survived by ten of his eleven children, eight of whom eventually settled permanently in Palestine. His eldest son, Norman Bentwich, a leading barrister, also spent much of his professional life there, and another son, Joseph Bentwich, was awarded the Israel Prize for education in 1962; his daughter Thelma Yellin was a distinguished Israeli cellist (hebrew article here). His great-grandson is Israeli journalist Ari Shavit.[2]
Bentwich Cemetery
Bentwich Cemetery is a small cemetery dedicated to Herbert Bentwich and his family and located beside the Jerusalem American Colony Cemetery in Tabachnik National Garden on Mount Scopus.
Notes
- ^ Hilary L. Rubinstein, Herbert (1856–1932)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004, accessed 4 June 2010.
- ISBN 9780812984644. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
References
- Bentwich, Margery and Bentwich, Norman, Herbert Bentwich: The Pilgrim Father (Jerusalem, 1940)
- Davis, Hadassah, Dreams and their Consequences: A Memoir of the Bentwich Family .... 1880-1922 Pafnuty Press, 2003.
- Encyclopaedia Judaica
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