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  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, OM (November 6, 1870 - February 2, 1963) was a British politician and diplomat.
Samuel had been a Member of Parliament representing the Liberal Party and was appointed to Cabinet in 1910 by Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, as Postmaster General and later Home Secretary, the first practicing Jew appointed to the British cabinet.
This led to the bizarre situation where a Jew, Herbert Samuel, was to appoint the Islamic leader, in this case Hajj Amin Al Husseini, who later proved a thorn in the side of the British administration in Palestine and spent World War II in Germany as a personal friend of Hitler.
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 Herbert Louis, First Viscount Samuel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
During his term of office, the Jewish population doubled; extensive Jewish settlement was carried out; local councils were organized and the Hebrew language was recognized as one of the three official languages of the country.
Samuel returned to politics in England and in 1928 reentered the House of Commons.
Samuel had been knighted in 1920 and in 1937 was made a Viscount.
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 Samuel Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Samuel Hill Lawrence was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel (1898-1978), was the son of Herbert Samuel and the father of Professor David Samuel.
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth (6 November1870-2 February 1963) was a British politician and diplomat.
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 Herbert Samuel - Wikipedia
Als Hoher Kommissar war Samuel darum bemüht, seine Neutralität zu demonstrieren und versuchte zwischen zionistischen und arabischen Interessen zu vermitteln, indem er die jüdische Einwanderung verlangsamte und versuchte, das Vertrauen der arabischen Bevölkerung zu gewinnen.
Nachdem die Briten Palästina erobert hatten, war der Sultan freilich nicht mehr der sekuläre Herrscher, was zu der sonderbaren Situation führte, dass ein Jude, Herbert Samuel, die Aufgabe hatte, den islamischen Führer, in diesem Falle Hadsch Mohammed Amin al-Husseini zu ernennen, der sich später als Dorn im Fleische der britischen Regierung in Palästina erweisen sollte.
Nach den Wahlen von 1929 wurde Herbert Samuel wieder Mitglied des House of Commons.
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 Prophets, Priests and Kings - Herbert Samuel
Samuel's precise and profusely pigeon-holed mind there is no room for hesitation about conclusions, because there is no room for doubt about facts.
Samuel's faculty for mastering detail was revealed in the Children's Bill, which Mr.
Samuel's skill in Committee won the rare distinction of a dinner in honour of his success.
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 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As such, Samuel was the first Jew to govern the historic land of Israel in 2,000 years.
He put forward the idea of establishing a British Protectorate over Palestine in 1915 and his ideas influenced the Balfour Declaration.
On his return to Britain in 1925, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin asked Samuel to look into the problems of the mining industry.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount, 1870-1963, British statesman.
Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, SamuelwĬl´berfôrs, 1805-73, English prelate; son of William Wilberforce.
As a signer of the remonstrance against the appointment of R. Wise, Stephen Samuel Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949, American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader, b.
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 Herbert Louis Samuel
Samuel himself was moved by the outpouring of emotion which greeted him in the Land of Israel.
Samuel's career in different British posts was unique in its scope; he was the first unconverted Jew to serve in a Cabinet office.
Herbert believed that the creation of a Jewish center would flourish spiritually and intellectually, resulting in the character improvement of Jews all over the world.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/samuel.html   (417 words)

  
 Herbert Samuel
Herbert Samuel, the son of a successful banker, Edwin Louis Samuel, was born in 1870.
Although the parliamentary inquiry revealled that Samuel, David Lloyd George, Sir Rufus Isaacs and the Master of Elibank had profited directly from the policies of the government, it was decided the men had not been guilty of corruption.
In the 1918 General Election Samuel supported Herbert Asquith wing of the Liberal Party instead of David Lloyd George and was defeated at Cleveland.
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 Herbert Samuel Book from Books.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political life coincided with the long drawn-out sunset of Liberalism as a dominant political force in Britain.
At the turn of the century Samuel played a vital role in the formulation of the 'New Liberalism', and later helped translate that doctrine into legislation that laid the foundations of the welfare state.
Bernard Wasserstein assesses Samuel's importance in British politics and in the emergence of the state of Israel.
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 Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He played an important role in negotiating an end to the general strike of 1926.
In the Commons again (1929–35), Samuel was home secretary (1931–32) and leader of the Liberal party (1931–35).
Samuel’s writings include Practical Ethics (1935), Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy (1937), and In Search of Reality (1957).
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 Herbert Samuel by Bernard Wasserstein, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0198226489
Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political career began in the age of Gladstone and ended in the era of Grimond.
Wasserstein assesses the vital role played by Samuel in the survival of the Liberal Party and his part in translating that doctrine into legislation that laid the foundations of the welfare state.
Samuel and the Writer's Guild School - Samuel Stor...
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 Herbert Samuel Auerbach
The papers contained in this collection are, for the most part, typescripts taken from originals.
1 Auerbach, Herbert Samuel 1 Auerbach correspondence and misc.
Born in Oxford, England and arrived in the U.S. in 1879, "The Mormons As I Know Them" discussed Owen's relations with the Mormons, ca.
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 University of Southampton Libraries Special Collections - MS 203 Papers of Hon. Philip Ellis Herbert Samuel, c.1909-92
Philip Ellis Herbert Samuel (1900-c.1992) was the second son of Herbert Louis Samuel, first Viscount Samuel, and his wife, Beatrice, daughter of Ellis A.Franlin.
Philip Samuel was editor of the Bulletin of the Inter-University Jewish Federation of Great Britain and Ireland and affiliated student societies, 1922, the publication of which was associated with the Jewish Guardian newspaper; treasurer of the Union of Jewish Literary Societies, c.
Letters from Samuel to his mother, Beatrice, Viscountess Samuel, 1909-41 (32 files); letters to his father, Herbert Louis Samuel, first Viscount Samuel, 1917-45 (16 files); letters from his parents, 1916-41, including correspondence from Jerusalem when Lord Samuel was High Commissioner for Palestine, 1922-6 (2 files)
www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk /guide/MS203.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount on Encyclopedia.com
In the Commons again (1929-35), Samuel was home secretary (1931-32) and leader of the Liberal party (1931-35).
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 A Broken Trust : Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians 1920-1925 (Library of Modern Middle Ea: ...
Using a range of sources, this text argues that many of the measures taken by Herbert Samuel during his time as British High Commissioner in Mandatory Palestine were designed to prepare the ground for a Jewish state.
Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner in Mandatory Palestine (1920-1925) and only the second Jew after Disraeli to have reached such a high position in the British government, is generally seen as an important administrator.
However, in this book, Sahar Huneidi contests this claim, arguing that most of the measures Samuel took during his time in Palestine were designed to prepare the ground not simply for the "Jewish national home" promised in both the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate of Palestine, but a Jewish state.
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 Herbert Samuel Definition / Herbert Samuel Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth (6 NovemberNovember 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining.
From September 23, there are 88 days in a fall (autumn) season.
Herbert Samuel is a British Statesman noted for his wit.
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 Powell's Books - Library of Modern Middle East Studies #15: A Broken Trust: Sir Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Using a wide range of sources Huneidi charts Samuel’s career in Palestine against the complex background of British policy, the Zionist movement at its inception and the emergent Palestinian Arab nationalist movement.
An editor and historian living in London and Kuwait, Huneidi challenges the conventional view of Samuel as an impartial administrator in the emerging conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Zionists during his tenure as British high commissioner in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-25.
She argues that most of the measures he took were designed to prepare the ground not only for the Jewish national home, but also for a fully-fledged Jewish state.
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 languagehat.com
Jesse Sheidlower has a piece in the current Bookforum on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language that is well worth reading.
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary is one of the great intellectual achievements of any age.
Praised from the moment of its publication, it remains an astonishing work, not least because it is the product of a single, extraordinarily perceptive mind.
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 Domes: Lord Herbert Samuel's Attitudes on Palestine While in the House of@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lord Herbert Samuel's Attitudes on Palestine While in the House of
In few places can this contradiction be more easily seen than in the statements made about Palestine in the House of Lords by Herbert Samuel, the territories first British High Commissioner.
It is the purpose of this paper to examine critically Lord Samuel's statements concerning Palestine, revealing where he failed to face the realities of that territory, while at the...
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 The Arrival of Sir Herbert Samuel First British High Commissioner in Palestine
The Arrival of Sir Herbert Samuel First British High Commissioner in Palestine
When the first high commissioner for Palestine arrived in Jerusalem, he was met with a seventeen-gun salute and endless words of welcome.
Sir Herbert Samuel made the journey in June 1920, and served as high commissioner for a period of five years.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/samuel.html   (429 words)

  
 World of Quotes - Herbert Samuel Quotes.
5 Quotes for 'Herbert Samuel' in the Database.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
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 F98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Movements during the early part of 1916 are not known but by 20th December 1916 the machine gunners had arrived at the front in Turkish Mesopotamia (now Iraq) as the 133rd Coy.
Two of the gun crews, including that of Sgt. Herberts, found themselves too far ahead and were killed during a Turkish counter-attack which drove the Dorsets back about 600 yards.
Joseph Herberts remains are likely to have been buried locally although there is no known grave.
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 Tribue To The Late Herbert Samuel Brodder
Teacher with an entrepreneurial spirit, Herbert Samuel Brodber was born in Blackstonedge, St. Ann on March 31, 1911.
This extraordinary teacher turned his business vision for teachers into reality when he joined the staff of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) as the first Business Services Manager in 1970.
He is survived by his wife Olive and five of his six children.
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 Find in a Library: Herbert Samuel : a political life
Subjects: Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, -- Viscount, -- 1870-1963.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Pendant la première guerre mondiale, Samuel commence à prendre part à des activités sionistes.
A partir de 1928, Herbert Samuel revient à la vie politique en Angleterre, et dirige le Parti Libéral à la Chambre des Lords de 1944 à 1955.
L'intérêt d'H. Samuel dans l'évolution du foyer juif national ne diminuera jamais.
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 Herbert Samuel /Arbuthnot/ Family Tree on OneGreatFamily.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Genealogy and Family Tree of Herbert Samuel /Arbuthnot/
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He died on 7 May 1940 in Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Herbert Samuel John Halloran was born on 16 Apr 1894.
Robert Alexander Halloran was born on 30 Jan 1898.
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 Amazon.com: Books: A Broken Trust : Sir Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians (Library of Modern Middle East ...
A Broken Trust : Sir Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) (Hardcover)
Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner in Mandatory Palestine (1920–25) has been generally regarded as an impartial administrator.
Sahar Huneidi argues that most of the measures Samuel took during his time in Palestine were designed to prepare the ground not simply for the "Jewish national home" promised in both the Balfour Declaration and the mandate for Palestine, but also for a Jewish state.
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