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The Montagu Family
Write the Great Bookמונטגיו
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Montagu lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Jewish branch of the Montagu family. Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India from 1917 to 1922, was the principal Jewish opponent of the Balfour Declaration, out of fear of a dual loyalty.
Geographic origin: Londres
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/montagu">Montagu — Zakhor</a>Citation
Montagu — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/montaguVariants of the name (3)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Montague
עברית · Hebrew1
מונטגיו
Кириллица · Cyrillic1
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Notable figures
- 1.
Edwin Montagu
Secrétaire d'État à l'Inde, opposant à Balfour
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Montagu.
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Works & texts (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
1902
Thoughts on Judaism
Lily Montagu
Essai théologique de Lily Montagu. (1902)
août 1917
The Anti-Semitism of the Present Government (mémorandum au cabinet de guerre)
Edwin Montagu
Mémorandum politique de Edwin Montagu. (août 1917)
1943
The Faith of a Jewish Woman (autobiographie)
Lily Montagu
Livre (autobiographie) de Lily Montagu. (1943)
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
Royaume-UniInde
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Montagu give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- S.D. Waley, Edwin Montagu (1964)
- « Montagu », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
- L. Stein, Balfour Declaration (1961)
- Ch. Weizmann, Trial and Error (1950)
- E.M.L. Umansky, Lily Montagu and the Advancement of Liberal Judaism: From Vision to Vocation (1983)
- R.P. Lehmann, Nova Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica (1961)
- jc (June 17, 1927), 11–12
- The Times
- (Jan. 25, 1963), 1, 7, 35
- Roth, Mag Bibl, index
- W.D. Rubinstein, Jews in Great Britain
- G. Alderman, Modern British Jewry (1987)
- Jan. 24, 1963)
- C. Bermant, The Cousinhood (1961)
- N.B. Levine, Politics, Religion, and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley, and Edwin Montagu (1991)
- S. Bayme, "Claude Montefiore, Lily Montagu and the Origins of the Jewish Religious Union," in: jhset, xxvii (1978–80), 61–71 (1978)
- M. Brock and E. Brock (eds.), H.H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley (1982)
- E.C. Black, "Edwin Montagu," in: jhset, 30 (1987–88), 199–218 (1987)
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