Isidor Gerstenberg (1821-1876): Founder of the Council of Foreign Bondholders

ISIDOR GERSTENBERG was the Founder and first President of the Council of Foreign Bondholders whose principal object is the protection of the interests of holders of foreign Government, State or Municipal obligations issued in this country. This organisation developed greatly after his death and has become an institution of national importance. The vast field of its activities and undertakings, and the scope of its achievements can be gauged from the fact that the Council has been concerned in the settlement of debts aggregating over ?1,000,000,000. Similar institutions have been set up in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and in the United States of America under Government auspices. Before the formation of the Council defaults were dealt with by ad hoc committees of the Stock Exchange, but their efforts ?fter proved inadequate and they were not sufficiently influential to bring pressure to bear on foreign governments which had failed to

Written by

Alexander Behr

Published in

Volume 17

1951

Other articles within the volume

• The Mediaeval Christian Hebraists of England: HERBERT OF BOSHAM AND EARLIER SCHOLARS
• Some New Facts About the Portsmouth Jewish Community
• The Anglo-Jewish Contribution to the Education Movement for Women in the Nineteenth Century
• Baron Paul Julius de Reuter
• Isidor Gerstenberg (1821-1876): Founder of the Council of Foreign Bondholders
• Were There Jews in Roman Britain?
• A Survey of Anglo-Jewry in 1851
• Judah Benjamin
• Anglo-Jewish Notaries and Scriveners
• Solomon Bennett, 1761-1838 Artist, Hebraist and Controversialist
• Samson Gideon: Eighteenth Century Jewish Financier
• The References to England in the Responsa of Rabbi Meir Ben Baruch of Rothenburg, 1215-1293
• The Beginnings of the Jewish Trade Union Movement in England
• A Survey of the Jewish Institutional History of Liverpool and District
• The History of the Jewish Community in Gentile Society
• The Jews of Falmouth—1740-1860
• The Jewish Contribution to the British Textile Industry “BUILDERS OF BRADFORD”
• Leone da Modena and his English Correspondents
• An Anglo-Jewish Family
• Preface