Maccabaeans

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See also: Maccabees (disambiguation)

The Maccabaeans (in full, the Ancient Order of Maccabeans) is an Anglo-Jewish charity, founded in 1891. Consisting primarily of people in the professions, its aims are to provide

"social intercourse and co-operation among its members with a view to the promotion of the interests of Jews, including the support of any professional or learned bodies and charities."

All persons "of the Jewish faith who declare themselves adherents to the Zionist Movement" can become members.

Its presidents include:

• 1891-1915 Raphael Meldola (in whose honour the society awards the Meldola Medal for Chemistry)
• 1915-1932 Herbert Bentwich
• 1932-1954 Selig Brodetsky

• 1982-1990 Sir Alan Marre
• 1990-2000 Sir John Balcombe
• 2000- Sir Ian Gainsford

Other notable members have included:

• Bertram Abrahams
• Louis Barnett Abrahams
• Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler
• Norman Bentwich
• Sir Ernst Boris Chain
• Walter Emanuel
• Albert Goldsmid
• Marcus Hartog
• Henry Henriques
• Delissa Joseph
• Rev. Morris Joseph
• Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz
• Richard Gillis
• Waldemar Haffkine
• Sir Ian Heilbron
• David Nunes Nabarro
• Michael Samuel Rich
• Sir Bernard Rix
• Solomon Joseph Solomon (Vice-President)
• Rev. Joseph Stern
• Rev. Charles Voysey (Not Jewish; hon. member)
• Chaim Weizmann
• Lucien Wolff
• Israel Zangwill

[edit] References

• Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Maccabaeans
• Jewish Year Book, 2005, p.104
• Who was Who