The struggle to establish the London Jewish Hospital: Lord Rothschild versus the barber*

At the beginning of this century there were many in the Jewish community who thought there was a need for a specifically Jewish hospital for the Jewish poor. One correspondent of the Jewish Chronicle,((Jewish Chronicle (hereafter JC) 14 Septem? ber 1900. For a more detailed account of the rise and fall of the London Jewish Hospital see the author’s unpublished PhD thesis, Health and Medical Care of the Jewish Poor in the East End of London, 1880-1939 (Leicester University 1987) 251-320.)) a Manchester doctor, said that many poor uneducated Jews refused, or at bast hesitated, to enter non-denominational hospitals in England as well as abroad, because they had a presentiment that the absence of Jewish sympathy and ministration would bring about death instead of a cure. The belief that some sick poor failed to enter hospital for this reason was a theme repeated throughout the straggle to establish a Jewish

Written by

Gerry Black

Published in

Volume 32

1990

Other articles within the volume

• Further on the Curiel family in 16th-century Portugal
• Class, ethnicity and politics in the Jewish East End, 191 8-1939
• The struggle to establish the London Jewish Hospital: Lord Rothschild versus the barber*
• Hatikvah – Imber, his poem and a national anthem*
• Jenkinson and Schechter at Cambridge: an expanded and updated assessment*
• The importance of being editor: The Jewish Chronicle, 1841-1991*
• From Poland to Paddington: the early history of the Spielmann family, 1828-1948*
• The Jews of Norfolk and Suffolk before 1840*
• London: the 13th-century Jewry revisited*
• The Jewish entries from the Patent Rolls, 1272-1292
• The Jews of Medieval Cambridge
• Publications by Vivian David Lipman CVO, DPhil, FSA, FRHistS (i921-1990)
• Asher Lewis Shane (1911—1991)
• In Memoriam Sir Alan Mocatta OBE (i 907-1990)
• Preface