Maccabaeans
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The Maccabaeans is an Anglo
-Jewish charity. Started in 1891, it is a friendly society
, established in 1894, and registered on the 8th of May, 1901, under the Friendly Societies' Act
, as amended 1896. Its membership consists primarily of people in the professions, with aims to provide:
All persons "of the Jewish faith who declare themselves adherents to the Zionist Movement" can become members; membership also includes similarly minded, non-Jewish 'honorary' members.
When Theodor Herzl
came to England before the First Zionist Congress
the members of the Society, who then belonged to the "Lovers of Zion
" movement, pledged their adherence to the Zionist cause. The Society is an avowedly Zionist Order, and every member on admission has to declare his willingness to be a Zionist, to pay the shekel and to assist generally through the Order in the work of resettling the Jews in Palestine.
Its presidents include:
Other notable members have included:
England
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-Jewish charity. Started in 1891, it is a friendly society
Friendly society
A friendly society is a mutual association for insurance, pensions or savings and loan-like purposes, or cooperative banking. It is a mutual organization or benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or social purpose...
, established in 1894, and registered on the 8th of May, 1901, under the Friendly Societies' Act
Friendly Societies Act 1875
The Friendly Societies Act 1875 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative Government following the publication of the Royal Commission on Friendly Societies' Final Report....
, as amended 1896. Its membership consists primarily of people in the professions, with aims to provide:
- "social intercourse and co-operation among its members with a view to the promotion of the interests of Jews, including the support of any professional or learned bodies and charities."
All persons "of the Jewish faith who declare themselves adherents to the Zionist Movement" can become members; membership also includes similarly minded, non-Jewish 'honorary' members.
When Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl , born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl was an Ashkenazi Jew Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.-Early life:...
came to England before the First Zionist Congress
First Zionist Congress
The First Zionist Congress was the inaugural congress of the Zionist Organization held in Basel , Switzerland, from August 29 to August 31, 1897. It was convened and chaired by Theodor Herzl, the founder of the modern Zionism movement...
the members of the Society, who then belonged to the "Lovers of Zion
Hovevei Zion
Hovevei Zion , also known as Hibbat Zion , refers to organizations that are now considered the forerunners and foundation-builders of modern Zionism....
" movement, pledged their adherence to the Zionist cause. The Society is an avowedly Zionist Order, and every member on admission has to declare his willingness to be a Zionist, to pay the shekel and to assist generally through the Order in the work of resettling the Jews in Palestine.
Its presidents include:
- 1891-1903 Raphael MeldolaRaphael MeldolaRaphael Meldola FRS was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–5.- Life :...
(in whose honour the society awards the Meldola medalMeldola medalThe Meldola Medal and Prize was awarded annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry to a British chemist who was under 32 years of age for promising original investigations in chemistry . It commemorates Raphael Meldola, President of the Maccabaeans and the Institute of Chemistry...
for Chemistry) - 1903-1904 Albert GoldsmidAlbert GoldsmidColonel Albert Edward Williamson Goldsmid, MVO was a British officer. He was the founder of the Jewish Lads' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.-Personal life:...
- 1904-1927 Solomon Joseph SolomonSolomon Joseph SolomonSolomon Joseph Solomon, RA, was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, of no relation to Simeon Solomon...
- 1927-1932 Herbert BentwichHerbert BentwichHerbert Bentwich was a British Zionist leader and lawyer.He was an authority on copyright law, and owner/editor of the Law Journal for many years. He was a leading member of the English Hovevei Zion and one of the first followers of Theodor Herzl in England...
- 1932-1954 Selig BrodetskySelig BrodetskySelig Brodetsky was a British Professor of Mathematics, a member of the World Zionist Executive, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the second president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Background:Brodetsky was born in Olviopol , Ukraine, the second of 13 children...
- 1982-1990 Sir Alan MarreAlan MarreSir Alan Samuel Marre CB KCB was a civil servant, serving most notably as Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and as the first Health Service Commissioner for England, Scotland and Wales....
- 1990-2000 Sir John BalcombeJohn BalcombeSir John Balcombe was a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1985-95.-Career:He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1950 ; he practised at the Chancery Bar, 1951-77. He was appointed a QC in 1969. He was a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Family Division, 1977-85...
- 2000- Sir Ian GainsfordIan GainsfordSir Ian Derek Gainsford was Dean of King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, King's College London and Vice-Principal of King’s College London . He is President of the Maccabaeans.- Early life :...
Other notable members have included:
- Bertram Abrahams
- Louis Barnett AbrahamsLouis Barnett AbrahamsLouis Barnett Abrahams was the head master of the Jews' Free School, London; born at Swansea, South Wales, 1842. He was educated in the Jews' School at Manchester, whither his family had removed in 1845...
- Chief Rabbi Hermann AdlerHermann AdlerRabbi Hermann Adler CVO was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. The son of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica writes that he "raised the position [of Chief Rabbi] to one of much dignity and importance."Born in Hanover, like his father, he had both a...
- Norman BentwichNorman BentwichNorman De Mattos Bentwich OBE MC was a British barrister and legal academic who served as Legal Secretary and the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine from 1918 to 1931. A lifelong Zionist, Bentwich was close to the moderate wing of the movement...
- Sir Ernst Boris ChainErnst Boris ChainSir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.-Biography:...
- Walter Emanuel
- Marcus HartogMarcus HartogMarcus Manuel Hartog was an English natural historian and educator in Cork, Ireland. He contributed to multiple volumes of the Cambridge Natural History....
- Henry Henriques
- Delissa Joseph
- Rev. Morris Joseph
- Chief Rabbi Joseph H. HertzJoseph H. Hertz----Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, CH was a Jewish Hungarian-born Rabbi and Bible scholar. He is most notable for holding the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and The Holocaust.- Early life :Hertz was born in the...
- Richard Gillis
- Waldemar HaffkineWaldemar HaffkineWaldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, CIE was a Russian Jewish bacteriologist, whose career was blighted in Russia because "he refused to convert to Russian Orthodoxy." He emigrated and worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he developed an anti-cholera vaccine that he tried out successfully...
- Sir Ian HeilbronIan HeilbronSir Ian Morris Heilbron DSO FRS was a British chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was knighted in 1946...
- David Nunes Nabarro
- Michael Samuel Rich
- Sir Bernard RixBernard RixSir Bernard Anthony Rix , styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Rix, is an English judge, who has been a Lord Justice of Appeal since 2000.-Family:...
- Isaac SnowmanIsaac SnowmanIsaac Snowman was an English artist.He was educated at the City of London School. In 1890 he entered the Royal Academy School, where he gained a free medal, and afterward a scholarship in the Institution of British Artists...
- Rev. Joseph Stern
- Rev. Charles VoyseyCharles Voysey (theist)Charles Voysey was an English Anglican priest who was condemned by the Privy Council for heresy and went on to found the Theist Church....
(Not Jewish; hon. member) - Chaim WeizmannChaim WeizmannChaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
- Lucien WolfLucien WolfLucien Wolf was an English Jewish journalist, historian, and advocate of Jewish rights.-Biography:He was the son of Edward Wolf, a London pipe manufacturer, and his wife Céline...
- Israel ZangwillIsrael ZangwillIsrael Zangwill was a British humorist and writer.-Biography:Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing...