Commemorative card bearing Sir Moses Montefiore’s photograph above a coat of arms, all enclosed within a curved border of leaves and ribbons inscribed with the names of cities and countries: Jerusalem, Damascus, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Rome and Morocco, and at the bottom, the motto “Think and Thank.” Beneath the picture is his facsimile signature, the event title, an inscription in Hebrew and a biographical paragraph in German. This card commemorates the 100 th birthday of Montefiore, a year before his death in 1885. This is an interesting and unusual piece of Judaic ephemera.<\/p>\n
Montefiore, the most famous British Jew of the 19th century, began his career as a businessman. After his retirement in 1824, he dedicated himself to civic and community affairs, as well as to living a religiously observant life. He undertook projects to help the Jews in Israel launch economic and agricultural ventures and visited Israel several times. From 1837-38 he served as sheriff of London and was knighted by Queen Victoria, later receiving a baronetcy in 1846 for his humanitarian work. He used his prestige to advocate abroad to stop the persecution of Jews, traveling to Romania, Russia and Morocco. His 100th birthday was a public holiday for Jewish communities around the world.<\/p>\n
Reference:<\/p>\n
“Sir Moses Montefiore.” Department for Jewish Zionist Education. <\/em>1992-2004. http:\/\/www.jafi.org.il\/education\/100\/people\/BIOS\/monte.html (27 July 2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zur Feier des 100 J\u00e4hrigen Jubil\u00e4ums Sir Moses Montefiore’s 1884<\/strong> Commemorative card bearing Sir Moses Montefiore’s photograph above a coat of arms, all enclosed within a curved border of leaves and ribbons inscribed with the names of cities and countries: Jerusalem, Damascus, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Rome and Morocco, and at the bottom, the motto “Think and Thank.” Beneath the picture is his facsimile signature, the event title, an inscription in Hebrew and a biographical paragraph in German. This card commemorates the 100 th birthday of Montefiore, a year before his death in 1885. This is an interesting and unusual piece of Judaic ephemera.<\/p>\n Product description continues below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9881,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5051],"product_tag":[509,4590,1814,160,4585,4586,4587,4588,2563,1651,165,3153],"class_list":{"0":"post-9879","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-archive-sold-history-people","7":"product_tag-austrian","8":"product_tag-birthday","9":"product_tag-centenary","10":"product_tag-commemorative","11":"product_tag-feier","12":"product_tag-jahrigen","13":"product_tag-jubilaums","14":"product_tag-montefiore","15":"product_tag-moses","16":"product_tag-photograph","17":"product_tag-portrait","18":"product_tag-vienna","19":"post","20":"post-with-thumbnail","21":"post-with-thumbnail-large","23":"first","24":"instock","25":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9879"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9879"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[In Celebration of Sir Moses Montefiore’s 100 th Birthday 1884] <\/strong>
\nCharles Krauss, Vienna: 1884
\nPhotograph, mounted on card
\n8.5 x 5.5 inches, overall<\/p>\n