Abigail Frances Floretta Green [1] is a British historian. She has been a Fellow of the Brasenose College, Oxford, since 2000, and in 2015 she was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford.
Green's mother was born into the Sebag-Montefiore family. [2] Green completed her undergraduate degree (BA) at the University of Oxford, and then carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge; her PhD was awarded in 1999 for her thesis "Particularist state-building and the German question: Hanover, Saxony, Württemberg 1850–1866". [1] [3] [4] She was elected to a Title A Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1998, before being appointed a Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2000. [1] [5] [6] She remains there as of 2018, [5] and in 2015 was awarded the title Professor of Modern European History by the University of Oxford. [7]
Green specialises in the history of 19th-century Europe, nationalism and regionalism in Germany, Jewish internationalism, and liberalism. [5]
Green was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature's silver medal in 2012 for her biography of Sir Moses Montefiore, [8] which was also named one the New Republic's "Best Books of 2010", included among the Times Literary Supplement "Books of the Year", and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. [9] [10]
The Damascus affair of 1840 refers to the arrest of several notable members of the Jewish community in Damascus on the accusation of murdering Father Thomas, a Christian monk, and his Muslim servant for the purpose of using their blood to bake matzo, an antisemitic accusation also known as the blood libel.
Sir Simon Michael Schama is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University.
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, also Goldsmid–Montefiore or just Goldsmid Montefiore (1858–1938) was the intellectual founder of Anglo-Liberal Judaism and the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature and New Testament. He was a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics, and educator. Montefiore was President of the Anglo-Jewish Association and an influential anti-Zionist leader, who co-founded the anti-Zionist League of British Jews in 1917.
Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and author of popular history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022), among others.
Arthur Cohen, was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.
David Lindo Alexander was an English barrister and Jewish community leader.
Hugh William Montefiore was an English Anglican bishop and academic, who served as Bishop of Kingston from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Birmingham from 1978 to 1987.
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Herbert Martin James Loewe (1882–1940) was a noted scholar of Semitic languages and Jewish culture. His grandfather, Louis Loewe (1809–1880), had been Sir Moses Montefiore's secretary and the first Principal of the Judith Lady Montefiore College at Ramsgate.
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, after he achieved success, he donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health among the Jewish community in the Levant. He founded Mishkenot Sha'ananim in 1860, the first Jewish settlement outside the Old City of Jerusalem.
Alan Claude Robin Goldsmid Montefiore is a British philosopher and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is a co-founder and Emeritus President of the Forum for European Philosophy, as well as Joint President of the Wiener Library, and a former Chair of Council of the Froebel Educational Institute.
Judith, Lady Montefiore was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, and philanthropist. She was the wife of Sir Moses Montefiore. She authored the first Jewish cook book written in English.
Abigail Lindo was a British lexicographer. She was the first British Jew who compiled a Hebrew-English dictionary. She is considered to be the only woman to have made a significant contribution to philology in the nineteenth century.
Judith Lady Montefiore College is a Jewish theological seminary founded in 1869 by Sir Moses Montefiore in memory of his late wife, Lady Judith Montefiore, at Ramsgate, Kent. Though closed in 1985, the College re-opened in London in 2005.
Sara Yael Hirschhorn is currently the Visiting assistant professor of Israel Studies at Northwestern University. She was formerly the University Research Lecturer and Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel and Hebrew Studies at the University of Oxford, historian and author. In May 2017, Harvard University Press published her first book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement. She began fieldwork for the book in 2008.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is a prominent American historian of Sephardic and Mediterranean Jewries.
Marion Moss Hartog was an English Jewish poet, author, and educator. She was the editor of the first Jewish women's periodical, The Jewish Sabbath Journal.
Israel Finestein QC MA (1921–2009), an English barrister and Deputy High Court Judge, was a leader and historian of British Jewry. His writings analysed the history of divisions amongst the Jews of England; in varied roles he worked for communal change and reconciliation.