Albert Montefiore Hyamson

Albert Montefiore Hyamson OBE (1875 - 5 October 1954) was a British zionist and historian who served as chief immigration officer in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1921 to 1934.^[1]

Hyamson was a strong advocate of creating a Jewish state from Palestine, which was administered by the British following the defeat of the Ottoman empire in 1918. He argued that Christians should assist the Jews in creating and protecting the new state to atone for their persecution of the Jews in the past. He said "Let Britain remember her past, think of her future, and secure for the Jews, under her protection the possibility of building a new Palestine on the ruins of her ancient past".^[2]

Hyamson was appointed officer in charge of the Jewish branch of the Department of Information after the Balfour Declaration of 1917.^[3] From 1917 to 1919 he edited the Zionist Review.^[4] In 1921 Hyamson was appointed to the Immigration Department.^[3] In June 1931 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).^[5] He became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[6] Hyamson was President of the Jewish Historical Society of England from 1945–1947, and Honorary Editor of Publications for the society from 1944 until his death in 1954.^[7]

Bibliography

• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1903). The Lost Tribes, and the influence of the search for them on the return of the Jews to England. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1906). A dictionary of artists and art terms: (architects, engravers, painters, sculptors, etc.). G. Routledge & Sons. 
• John Bertram Askew, Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1906). Pros and cons: a newspaper reader's and debater's guide to the leading controversies of the day. Routledge. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1907). A dictionary of the Bible. Illustrated. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1909). The humour of the post office. George Routledge & Sons. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1916). A dictionary of universal biography of all ages and of all peoples. Routledge. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson, Richard Hakluyt, Edward Handley-Read (1912). Elizabethan adventurers upon the Spanish Main (adapted from the "Voyages" of Richard Hakluyt): by Albert M. Hyamson ... with eight plates by Edward Handley-Read. G. Routledge & sons, limited. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1917). British projects for the restoration of the Jews. The British Palestine committee. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1917). Palestine, the Rebirth of an Ancient People. Nabu Press. ISBN 1176920367. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1922). A dictionary of English phrases: phraseological allusions, catchwords, stereotyped modes of speech and metaphors, nicknames, sobriquets, derivations from personal names, etc., with explanations and thousands of exact references to their sources or early usage. Routledge. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1928). A History of the Jews in England. Forgotten Books. ISBN 1440042365. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1928). Palestine old and new. R. M. McBride & company. 
• Edgar Fletcher-Allen, Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1932). The Mediterranean. Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1933). Moses Montefiore, his life and times. Jewish Religious Educational Publications. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1934). Judas Maccabaeus: the hammer of God. M. L. Cailingold. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson, Abraham Maurice Silbermann (1938). Vallentine's Jewish Encyclopedia. Shapiro, Vallentine. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1939). David Salomons. Methuen. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1939). The British Consulate in Jerusalem in Relation to the Jews of Palestine, 1838-1914, Volume 2. Jewish Historical Society of England. ISBN 0404562787. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1942). Palestine: a policy. Methuen & co., ltd.. ISBN 0883553252. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1946). A dictionary of international affairs. Public Affairs Press, American Council on Public Affairs. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1947). The Jews of England. Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1950). Palestine under the mandate, 1920-1948. Methuen. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1951). The Sephardim of England: a history of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, 1492-1951. Methuen. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1954). The London Board for Shechita, 1804-1954. London Board for Shechita. 
• Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1955). Jews' College, London, 1855-1955. Jews' College. 

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