Harry Sacher
Harry Sacher ( born September 3, 1881 in London, † May 10, 1971 ) was a British lawyer, journalist and Zionist leader.
Sacher was since 1905 Journalist of the Manchester Guardian. With his colleague Herbert Sidebotham and with Leon Simon and other members of the Manchester School for Zionism, he founded the weekly journal Palestine. In the context of political pressure to enforce the desired Balfour Declaration, which he was co-author, he published in Palestine in February 1917 an Article that Sidon, Damascus and the eastern bank of the Jordan should also be part of the future Jewish state. He angered Mark Sykes, who had just closed the secret Sykes- Picot agreement with France, in which it was Lebanon slammed the French League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon.
1920 Sacher worked as a lawyer in Palestine. In 1925, he was with Felix M. Warburg, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud member of the Board of Governors of the newly founded Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Warburg liked him at the time as " strongly anti-Arab personality " and as " the Arab- Jewish relations not conducive to " a.
Sacher was married to Miriam Marks, daughter of Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks & Spencer. He was director and historian of the company. Next to him were in the company's leadership, the Zionists Israel Sieff, who was married to Miriam's sister, and Simon Marks, son of the company founder.
Writings (selection )
- Zionism and the Jewish future. Murray. 1916
- Israel.The establishment of a state. British Book Centre. 1952 Hyperion. 1976
- Zionist portraits, and other essays. Blond. 1959
- Jewish emancipation. English Zionist federation. 1917 online
- Zionism and the Jewish future. Macmillan Company. 1916 online