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Montefiore may refer to: People *Montefiore (surname), several people with the surname Montefiore, in particular **Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885), a prominent British financier, stockbroker, banker and philanthropist Places * Montefiore, a neighborhood in Tel Aviv * Montefiore Conca, a municipality in the Province of Rimini, Italy * Montefiore dell'Aso, a municipality in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy * Montefiore Hill, a small hill with lookout and memorial in North Adelaide, South Australia, named after Jacob Barrow Montefiore ** Montefiore Road, continuation of Morphett Street, Adelaide, Australia which leads up to Montefiore Hill Schools * Montefiore House, Wessex Lane Halls, University of Southampton * Montefiore Institute, the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of the University of Liège * Montefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine, one of the oldest primary care training programs in the U.S., active in Bronx * Moses Montefiore Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montefiore (surname)
Montefiore (its variations, Montifiore, Montefiori, and Montifiori), is a surname, meaning "flower mountain". The surname is associated with the Montefiore family, Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe. The name derives from one of three towns in Italy, although it is not known which one. By 1630 the Montefiores were merchants living in Ancona, with some of them later moving to Livorno. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Montefiore (born 1957), British-born Israeli wine trade veteran and wine critic * Alan Montefiore (1926–2024), British philosopher and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford * Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1875–1954), British civil servant and historian, chief immigration officer in British Palestine 1921–1934 * Claude Montefiore (1858–1938), philosopher * Dora Montefiore (1851–1933), English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer * Eliezer Levi Montefiore, businessman and art collector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Montefiore Academy
Moses Montefiore Academy (also known as Moses School or simply Montefiore) was a special school of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Established in 1929, The school was located Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois and served students with severe emotional disorders.Maidenburg, Micah.High school at Montefiore." '' Chicago Journal''. January 20, 2010. Retrieved on April 19, 2015. The school closed in 2016, with the building being torn down in 2024. Background In 2010, the school had 62 students in grades 5–8. Prior to 2010 there had been a decline in enrollment and Micah Maidenberg of the '' Chicago Journal'' wrote that "Staff and administrators at Montefiore had feared closure". In 2010 CPS announced plans to add a high school division to Montefiore with a plan to make it a 6-12 school; at the time the district administration was recommending Bartholome De Las Casas Occupational School, which had 82 students, for closure. Ron Huberman, the CEO of CPS, stated that the Montefiore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montefiore Windmill
The Montefiore Windmill is a landmark windmill in Jerusalem. Designed as a flour mill, it was built in 1857 on a slope opposite the western city walls of Jerusalem, where three years later the new Jewish neighbourhood of Mishkenot Sha'ananim was erected, both by the efforts of British Jewish banker and philanthropist Moses Montefiore. Jerusalem at the time was part of Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-ruled History of Palestine#Ottoman period, Palestine. Today the windmill serves as a small museum dedicated to the achievements of Montefiore. It was restored in 2012 with a new cap and sails in the style of the originals. The mill can turn in the wind. History Ottoman era The windmill and the neighbourhood of Mishkenot Sha'ananim were both funded by the British Jewish banker and philanthropist Moses Montefiore, who devoted his life to promoting industry, education and health in the Land of Israel. Montefiore built the windmill with funding from the estate of an American Jew, Judah Touro, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montefiore Hospital (other) , residential elderly care facilities in Hunters Hill and Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia
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Montefiore Hospital may refer to: * Montefiore Hospital, Hove, Hove, Sussex, England, United Kingdom * Montefiore Medical Center, the teaching hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, United States * Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, a teaching hospital in New Rochelle, Westchester, New York, United States * UPMC Montefiore, founded as Montefiore Hospital in 1908, now part of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States See also * Montefiore (other) * Sir Moses Montefiore Home The Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home provides residential elderly care facilities in Hunters Hill and Woollahra with a further facility being constructed in Randwick. The home is named after Sir Moses Haim Montefiore. The home seeks to enhance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montefiore Club
The Montefiore Club was a private members' club, catering to the Jewish people, Jewish community, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. History Founded in 1880, the club was originally called the "Montefiore Social and Dramatic Club", named for Moses Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, the United Kingdom, British-Jewish philanthropist. It was established by 11 people, all quite young, with ages ranging from 15 to 23, as a social club for young Jewish people. It held fundraising Ball (dance), balls to help Jewish refugees, and Play (theatre), plays that were produced to fund welfare programs for immigrants. Later renamed the "Montefoire Club", and modelled on upper class gentlemen's clubs of London, it functioned as a private social and business association, catering to members of the Jewish people, Jewish community. Among its members, were "well-to-do" members of the Jewish community, who were excluded from elite English Canadian, Anglophone clubs such as the St. James and the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montefiore Cemetery
Montefiore Cemetery, also known as Old Montefiore Cemetery, is a Jewish cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York, established in 1908. The cemetery is called by several names, including Old Montefiore, Springfield, or less commonly, just Montefiore. More than 150,000 have been buried there. The Shomrim Society, the fraternal society of Jewish officers in the New York City Police Department, has a burial plot for their members in Montefiore Cemetery, and it contains a large granite obelisk erected in 1949. Notable burials * Hyman Amberg (1902–1926), mobsterWilson, pp. 18–19. * Joseph C. Amberg (–1926), mobster * Louis Amberg (1898–1935), mobster * Abraham Coralnik (1883–1937), writer and newspaper editor * Al "Bummy" Davis (1920–1945), boxer * Herb Edelman (1933–1996), actor * Paula Eliasoph (1895–1983), painter, poet * Israel Lewis Feinberg, M.D. (1872–1941), coroner of New York County * Sidney A. Fine (1903–1982), New York state assemblyman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Montefiore Congregation
The Moses Montefiore Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 102 Robinhood Lane in Bloomington, Illinois, in the United States. History Although Jews had arrived in Bloomington by the 1850s, the synagogue was organized in 1884 and named for Sir Moses Montefiore. On May 21, 1889, the congregation dedicated a Romanesque Revival / Moorish Revival synagogue building at the southeast corner of Monroe and Prairie Streets. It is one of the relatively few surviving 19th century synagogue buildings in the United States. In 1959 the congregation moved to a new building in the Fairway Knolls neighborhood. the Monroe and Prairie Streets former synagogue building was used as a Baptist church. Peter Warshaw purchased the property in 1993 and the former synagogue and former church was subsequently converted in a private residence. The new owners won the Landmarks Illinois 2001 ''Adaptive Reuse Award''. See also * History of the Jews in Chicago Jews bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montefiore Synagogue
The Montefiore Synagogue is the private Orthodox Jewish synagogue and adjacent mausoleum of the late Sir Moses Montefiore, located on Honeysuckle Road, Hereson, in Ramsgate, Kent, England, in the United Kingdom. The private synagogue was completed in 1833 and, together with the mausoleum, was listed as a Grade II* building in 1968. The synagogue and mausoleum are cared for and maintained by the Montefiore Endowment, that also maintains the nearby Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery. History Sir Moses Montefiore first came to Ramsgate in 1812 on his honeymoon with his wife Judith Cohen, sister-in-law to Nathan Rothschild. Ramsgate had had a small Jewish community since 1786. The synagogue was in the European tradition of great men having private chapels on their estates. Sir Moses Montefiore had the synagogue built immediately upon purchasing East Cliff Lodge in 1831. On the day the building was dedicated, Montefiore fulfilled the Jewish custom of marking such an occasion by giving char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Montefiore Synagogue
The Congregation Montefiore Synagogue is an historic former synagogue, now church, located at 355 South 300 East, in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. The synagogue was built in 1903 for the local congregation of Jews who followed Conservative Judaism. In the 1970s, the congregation merged with Congregation B'nai Israel to form Congregation Kol Ami and the building was sold. Initially used as a church by the Assemblies of God, currently the former synagogue houses the Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Christian Church. History of the building The Moorish Revival style synagogue was constructed in 1903. It was built on parcel of land given to the congregation by their fellow congregant Morris Levy. The building cost $9,000, $2,000 of which was donated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following World War II, an addition was built to house the congregation's school. The building was sold following the congregation's merger with Congregation B' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B'nai Israel Synagogue And Montefiore Cemetery
B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the United States, consists of a Reform Jewish congregation and its synagogue; and the congregation's related cemetery. Both the synagogue building and the cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. B'nai Israel Synagogue The B'nai Israel Synagogue (transliterated from Hebrew as "Sons / Children of Israel") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 601 Cottonwood Street, in Grand Forks. The congregation was chartered on August 26, 1891; founded by Eastern European Jews, including Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Lithuanian Jews. The first building, a wooden synagogue called the Congregation of the Children of Israel, was built in 1891 at 2nd Avenue, South & 7th Street. The second and current synagogue was built in 1937, designed by Grand Forks architect, Joseph Bell DeRemer, in the Art Deco style of architecture, and built by local builders Ska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronx
The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, Westchester County to its north; to its south and west, the New York City borough of Manhattan is across the Harlem River; and to its south and east is the borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx, the only New York City borough not primarily located on an island, has a land area of and a population of 1,472,654 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest population density of the boroughs.New York State Department of Health''Population, Land Area, and Population Density by County, New York State – 2010'' retrieved on August 8, 2015. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the West Bronx, west, and a flatter East Bronx, easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, Philanthropy, philanthropist and Sheriffs of the City of London, Sheriff of London. Born to an History of the Jews in Italy, Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, after he achieved success, he donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health among the Jewish community in the Levant. He founded Mishkenot Sha'ananim in 1860, the first Jewish settlement outside the Old City of Jerusalem. As President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, he corresponded with Charles Henry Churchill, the British consul in Damascus, in 1841–42; his contributions are seen as pivotal to the development of Proto-Zionism. Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria's chaplain, Norman Macleod (Caraid nan Gaidheal), Norman Macleod said of Montefiore: "No man living has done so much for his brethren in Palestine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
