Norman Bentwich, 1883-1971*

Norman often said that if he had his life over again, he would choose to be an archaeologist. He had a deep interest in the past, and in the history, not only of our own people but of all peoples and nations. At the same time?which is rare?he was intensely aware of the world in which he lived, and greatly concerned for the betterment of mankind everywhere. ‘Human rights’ were almost a passion with him, decades before the Declaration of the United Nations. I remember his efforts, just before the last war, to obtain the release of a small number of prisoners in China, and this at a time when his work on behalf of the victims of Nazi persecution led him to travel, sometimes at risk of personal danger, to Germany and Austria. He never knew fear, and was as reck? less in Palestine, after he was shot by

Written by

Helen Bentwich

Published in

Volume 24

1970

Other articles within the volume

• Norman Bentwich, 1883-1971*
• Jewish Colonies in Cyprus ? Further Information
• More Letters of Hazan de Sola
• The Selection of Jewish Children’s Names- Some Emendations
• Jews and the English Stage, 1667-1850
• The Community of the Resettlement, 1656-1684: A Social Survey*
• Joseph Gortissos and the War of the Spanish Succession*
• The Literary Career of Joseph Jacobs, 1876-1900*
• The British Press and Zionism in Herzl’s Time (1895-1904)*
• Abraham ben Naphtali Tang-A Precursor of the Anglo-Jewish Haskalah*
• On David Ricardo (1772-1823)*
• Naturalisation of Jews in England
• Foreign Trade of London Jews in the Seventeenth Century*
• Jewry of South-West England and some of its Australian Connections*
• The Letters of Israel Abrahams from Egypt and Palestine in 1898*
• Preface