: Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore Judith Cohen Lady Montefiore Moses Sir Loewe Louis Editor - Jews Biography; Palestine History; Diaries; Je

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Birth of Sir Moses Montefiore at Leghorn--His Family--Early Years 1

Early Education--Becomes a Stockbroker--His Marriage 12

Extracts from the Diaries--Financial Transactions--Public Events before and after Waterloo--Elected President of the Spanish and Portuguese Hebrew Community 19

Daily Life--Death of his Brother Abraham--An early Panama Canal Project 25

First Journey to Jerusalem 36

Mr and Mrs Montefiore leave Alexandria--A Sea Voyage Sixty Years ago 47

Arrival in England--Illness of Mr Montefiore--The Struggle for Jewish Emancipation 55

Lady Hester Stanhope--Her Eccentricities--Parliament and the Jews 63

Mr Montefiore presented to the King--Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London in 1829 69

Interview with the Duke of Wellington in furtherance of the Jewish--Cause--The Duke's Dilatory Tactics--Laying the Foundation-stone of the Synagogue at Hereson 78

Lord Brougham and the Jews--The Jewish Poor in London--Mr Montefiore hands his Broker's Medal to his Brother--Dedication of the Synagogue at Hereson--The Lords reject the Jewish Disabilities Bill 86

The Jews' Marriage Bill--Mr Montefiore at the Queen's Drawing-Room--His Inauguration as Sheriff 111

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