S. Montagu, M.P.

“President of the Federation of Minor Synagogues, and Chairman of the Board of Schedhita”

Source: Wolf, p. 600.

“Mr. Samuel Montagu, M.P., is, after Lord Rothschild, the most considerable figure in the Ashkenazi section of the community. He is President of the Federation of Minor Synagogues and of the Shechita Board, besides being connected with the management of other institutions. He is regarded as a pillar of Jewish Orthodoxy, and represents Whitechapel in Parliament” (604).

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