October I, 1943
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
.°. A WOMAN O1 VALOR .•.
By DAVID S. JACOBSON
poor Jews lived. Immediately,
Miss Montagu set to work to re-
build, and within one year, a
new home has been established.
At its dedication recently, Miss
(Reprinted from "Liberal Judaism")
Montagu revealed that she and
Undaunted by the ravages of world were heart-broken when, her sister had planned to turn
Editor's Note: A vivid vortrait of Lily H. Montagu. pioneering
figure in the Liberal Synagogue of England.
war which shattered the institu-
tion she founded and to which
she has devoted her life, the Hon.
Lily H. Montagu of London,
England, one of the most re-
markable women of this genera-
tion, is "carrying on". Her
friends and admirers all over the
over a year ago, the West Cen-
tral Jewish Settlement and Club,
which she established, was en-
tirely demolished by enemy ac-
tion. For half a century, this club
was the center of extensive so-
cial service in a large area of
i.ondon in which many of the
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over the work and supervision of
the club to their helpers after
they had completed their 50
years of service in the neighbor-
hood. However, she said, the task
before them required a rededica-
tion of their labors. For the West
Central spirit of love, loyalty and
service was stronger than ever.
Through the club, many members
had found their way to God.
Now they all had to devote their
best powers to evolve a better
world after the war. They had
to establish a new freedom—the
Jewish ideal of freedom; freedom
to serve the Highest.
Th history of the destruction
and rebuilding of the West Cen-
tral Club conforms to the pattern
of Lily Montagu's life, for al-
ways she has had to face almost
impossible obstacles. Yet in every
instance she has succeeded. To
understand this extraordinary
character who has the simplicity
of a saint, but whose life is as
complex as a character in a
novel, one must go back to her
early life.
Lily Montagu's father has
played the chief role in her ca-
reer. Born Montagu Samuel, his
name was reversed by his parents
in early boyhood. He became
very successful in London, and
founded a large banking firm
which bears his name. Very early
in life he became a prominent
figure in the Jewish community,
and was particularly interested
in establishing many synagogues
throughout England. He was head
of the Orthodox community and
extremely pious. When he en-
tered Parliament to represent the
Jewish district of Whitechapel,
he would break off his own
speeches in order to recite the
evening prayers. Whenever Par-
liament met in an all-night ses-
sion, he would go to one of the
rooms of the historical building,
don his praying shawl and phyl-
acteries, and conduct morning
worship before going out to have
breakfast. He was a courageous
man, and, when in 1886 he visit-
ed several towns in Russia to
consider emigration problems, he
was so pointed in his observa-
tions that he was ordered by the
Czarist government to leave
Moscow within 24 hours.
In 1894 Prime Minister Glad-
stone made him a baronet, the
first Lord Swaythling. The influ-
ence of Sir Samuel on his fam-
ily was, of course, very great,
and his children inherited his
ability as well as his character.
One of his sons, for example, was
Financial Secretary of the Treas-
ury during the First World War.
One was awarded the Distin-
guished Service Order.
On the impressionable young
girl Lily, living in the confined
circle of his family, Samuel Mon-
tagu made a very deep mark.
Somehow he never quite under-
stood his daughter, who resembled
him so much—with the same
large, piercing black eyes, the
same strong jaw, the same ideals
and character—this (laughter who,
like him, had a mind of her own.
Perhaps Lily, too, was overfill-
pressed by his grandeur. In a
biography, which she wrote of
him for private circulation after
hi.- death, and which is marked
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born in 1874, and toward the strictly limited by the terms of
close of the last century she was
passionately interested in helping
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young girls End their way in the
world. It is almost pathetic to
think of her hampered at the age
of 13—a beautiful, cultured
young girl, stirred by the great
torrent of thoughts and ideals.
the surging surf of international
politics that swept up to her very
doorsteps, as her father enter-
tained the leaders of the govern-
ment, impelled by the achieve-
ments of her family who were
making great names for them-
selves.
Besides her nine brothers and
sisters, all of whom were leaders,
other members of her family
were outstanding. Thus, her first
cousin is Sir Herbert Samuel, and
this, too, is remarkable, for it
by a deep sense of loyalty and
affection, she remarks that her
mother would sometimes soothe
the little girl's night terrors by
saying: "You know Papa is such
a good man, God would never
make him unhappy by letting his
little daughter die." Lily Mon-
tagu remarks, "And these words
were quite convincing in nursery
(lays."
But Lily was, after all, her
father's daughter, and as she
grew up she frequently resented
the restrictions that were placed
upon her and her sex. Not only
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