Herbert Bentwich
Herbert Bentwich ( born May 11, 1856 in Whitechapel, London, † June 25, 1932 in Rehavia ) was a British lawyer and Zionist.
Life
Bentwich came from a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. He married in 1880 Susannah Solomon, whose Jewish parents had emigrated from Prague and Vienna. They had eleven children, including the English Attorney-General Norman Bentwich, who was appointed in 1920 to the Attorney General in the British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Israel Friedlaender was a son.
Bentwich studied from 1872 law at University College London, the only English university was at the time, took up the Jews and other non- Anglicans. After the Bachelor examination, he was a solicitor in the City of London. His desire for training as a barrister he had to postpone due to financial reasons in 1901. It was not until 1903 he was admitted to the Inner Temple. Bentwich was a specialist in copyright law, and, representing the publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons. By emigrated from Prussia publisher Adolph Tuck (1854-1926) he was related to friendship. Instead of a lawyer, he pulled the editors activities before, acquired 1908, a Law Journal and was its author.
Bentwich was active for the English Jewry in the early years and initiated in the 1880s, when the pressure of assimilation of English society, but also the Assimilitationbegehren his co-religionists became larger, their own educational establishments for the middle class Jews in north London. He also opposed the marriage of Jews with members of other denominations. He was among the founders of the " Association of Maccabeans " which in Tsarist Russia encouraged settlement possibilities for the persecuted Jews in Palestine after the pogroms of the 1890s, its first president was Bentwich brother Solomon Joseph Solomon. 1897 led a group Maccabeans, among them the writer Israel Zangwill, on a journey to Palestine. In 1899 he was co-founder of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland From 1905 to 1919 he was the Grand Commander of the Maccabeans, 1911 a settlement company founded, the country in the region of Gezer in Palestine acquired, the project failed, however. Bentwich was a leading member of the English section of the Hibbat Zion and made Theodor Herzl in England public. He was a guest on the second and third Zionist Congress. Herzl visited him repeatedly in London and at his country house in Birchington, Kent, which he acquired in 1900. Bentwich baptized there be house " Carmel Court " in reference to the Mount Carmel and hoisted on feast days the Zionist flag.
For the Jewish Colonial Trust, he served as General Counsel and wrote the statutes of the Anglo-Palestine Bank. During World War II he was a member of a Zionist Advisory Group Chaim Weizmann in the preparation of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Representing the B'nai B'rith, he called on the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 civil rights for Jews in Central and Eastern European countries, which now became independent with the war. He was 1927-1932 President of the Maccabeans. In 1929 he moved permanently to Jerusalem.
Writings (selection )
- With Lewis Edmunds: The law of copyright in designs. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1908
- With William Henry Stoker: The Military Service Acts practice: Containing the Consolidated acts, proclamations, regulations and orders, with notes of cases and tribunal Decisions. London: Stevens and Sons, 1918
- Norman De Mattos Bentwich with; Frank Safford: The practice of the Privy council in judicial matters in appeals from courts of civil, criminal and admiralty jurisdiction and in appeals from ecclesiastical and prize courts, with the statutes, rules and forms of procedure. Sweet & Maxwell, London 1926