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Sir Moses Montefiore is probably remembered only amongst Jews today, but even those who do know of him probably don’t appreciate just how prominent a figure he was in his own lifetime. I certainly didn’t – until I read this book. I’d learned about Sir Montefiore from Rabbi Berel Wein’s lectures on the Jewish world in the 1850’s and on Rabbi Shmuel Salant, which was enough to whet my appetite for more. This 400+ page biography looked pretty intimidating when I took it out of the library, but Rabbi Wein’s portrayal was so glowing, I was willing to slog through.Yes, the book was a slog – not all of it, but much of it. As another GR reviewer said, it’s more history than biography, and while that’s inevitable with a subject who engaged with history, it didn’t always make for easy reading. Thanks to Rabbi Wein, I have a good background in Jewish history, so it wasn’t all new to me. I think a beginner would have a much harder time.For those who don’t know, Sir Moses Montefiore was one of the leading philanthropists of his day. He was born in the Italian state of Livorno, but moved to England with his family as a young man. He had business and marriage ties to the wealthy Rothschild family and eventually amassed a sizable fortune of his own. Knighted by Queen Victoria, he was very much an English gentleman, but he also had a Yiddishe hartz and would not, for example, Anglicize his name. He clung to our people in more significant ways than that, not just in distributing charity all over the world, but by acting as a diplomat for Jews in countries where they were oppressed, namely Damascus in the blood libel of 1840, Rome in the kidnapping of Edgardo Morata, Russia, Romania, Morocco, and of course, the Holy Land. In an age when so many Jews, including the Rothschilds, were assimilating and denying their Jewishness, he wore his as a badge of honor and used all his assets – financial and personal – to help Jews individually and institutionally.He was not always successful, which is a point that would probably be glossed over in a frum book. Nor is this a hagiographic biography; it definitely shows his feet of clay. It even addresses the “well-documented rumors” of his illegitimate children, which I do not believe. If such a well-researched book as this can tell us nothing to prove the rumors and makes two points to disprove them, then that’s all they are: rumors. The strongest proof is Sir Montefiore’s own writings anyway. The direct quotes are so full of passion for Torah and Yiddishkeit, I simply cannot believe that their author would ever stoop so low as to cheat on his own wife. The allegation itself would be enough to invalidate the book in the frum world. I say there is too much else to be learned from it to ignore it.One major disappointment for me was how little was said about Rabbi Shmuel Salant, the rabbinic half to Sir Montefiore’s charitable giving in Jerusalem. The book does acknowledge that the two were very close, but it didn’t give much detail. For that, you need Rabbi Wein’s lectures, “Builders of Jerusalem”.Despite the above faults, this is probably the most thorough biography available on Sir Montefiore. Read it alongside Rabbi Wein’s lectures. It will give you a picture of one of the greatest Jewish heroes of all time.
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