The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls, 1900–1960

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263 Notes Introduction 1. Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild, ed., An Appeal to Jewish Women on Behalf of the Anglo-Jewish Association (London: Jewish Chronicle, 1911), 6. 2. Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark, Sephardi Entrepreneurs in Jerusalem: The Valero Family, 1800–1948 (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2007), 235–94. 3. Margalit Shilo, Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840–1914 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2005), 143–80; and Liza Slutsky,“The Evelina de Rothschild School during the Yishuv” [in Hebrew], paper presented at the Schecter Center seminar, Jerusalem, 2006, 5. 4. Louis Loewe, ed., Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore (London: Jewish Historical Society, 1983), 36–43. 5. Jonathan Frankel, The Damascus Affair: “Ritual Murder,” Politics, and the Jews in 1840 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 109–48, 362–85. 6. Aron Rodrigue, French Jews, Turkish Jews: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Politics of Jewish Schooling in Turkey, 1860–1925 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), 80–85. 7. Shilo, Princess or Prisoner?, 143–80. 8. Rothschild, An Appeal to Jewish Women, 1. 9. Shifra Shvarts,“The Development of Mother and Infant Welfare Centers in Israel, 1854–1954,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 55, no. 4:398–39. 10. Margalit Shilo,“A Cross-Cultural Message: The Case of Evelina de Rothschild,” in Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel, ed. Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo and Galit Hasan-Rokem (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2008), 170–73. 11. Eliezer Manneberg, The Evolution of Jewish Educational Practices in the Sancak of Jerusalem under Ottoman Rule (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1976), 149–59; cf. Slutsky,“The Evelina de Rothschild School during the Yishuv,” 8. Slutsky says there were only fifteen girls in the original school. 264 · Notes to chapter one 12. Shilo, Princess or Prisoner?, 169. 13. Rothschild, An Appeal to Jewish Women, 2. 14. Ibid., 4. 15. Annie Landau,“Recollections That Are Past but Not Forgotten,” Ethel Levy Collection. 16. Interviews with Rachel Levin Reinitz, Shulamit Kishik-Cohen, Marta Zayonce Shamir, and Elisheva Shifman Baram. 17. Rothschild, An Appeal to Jewish Women, 2. 18. Ibid. 19. Interviews with Reinitz, Kishik-Cohen, Shamir, and Baram. 20. Yair Wallach,“Readings in Conflict: Public Texts in Modern Jerusalem, 1858–1948,” PhD diss., University of London, 2008, 195. Wallach notes that Jerusalemites often referred to buildings by unofficial names. The German school for orphan girls, Talitha Kumi, was known as“Charlota” after its headmistress, Charlotte Pilz, and the Syrian Orphanage was called“Schneller” after its founding pastor, Johan Schneller. 21. Rodrigue, French Jews, Turkish Jews, 84. 1. Annie Landau’s Road to Jerusalem 1. Family tree, Landau Family Papers. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid. 4. Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (New York: Vintage Books, 2001), 17. 5. Centennial Celebration: Evelina de Rothschild School [in Hebrew], 1964, 26, Evelina de Rothschild School Collection, Jerusalem Municipal Archives (JMA). 6. Max Nurock,“A Memory of Annie Landau,” 1945, Ethel Levy Collection. 7.“To Our Readers,” Jewish Standard, March 2, 1888, 2. 8.“Jewish Middle Class Education,” Jewish Standard, 4. 9. Ibid. 10.“Judaism and Art,” Jewish Standard, March 9, 1888, 3;“The Sabbath,” Jewish Standard, March 16, 1888, 4. 11.“The Sphere of Woman,” Jewish Standard, April 27, 1888, 4. 12.“Musical Evening at 20 Highbury Park,” June 2, 1907, Landau Family Papers. 13.“Family Record,” Jewish Chronicle, February 16, 1945, 16. 14. Sacks, Uncle Tungsten, 17, 172. 15. Annie Landau to Helena Landau, November 1942, Chester Archives, D6335, box 1. 16. Endowed Charities, vols. 4 and 5, London Metropolitan Archives (LMA). 17. Felicity Hunt, ed., Lessons for Life: The Schooling of Girls and Women 1850– 1950 (Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 6. Notes to chapter one · 265 18. Sylvia Harrop, The Merchant Taylors’ School for Girls, Crosby (Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 1988), 3–8. 19. Caroline Franklin: Tribute to Her Memory (London: Frome, Butler and Tanner, 1936). 20. Personal note to author from David Dimson of London, who knew Annie Landau in the 1930s. 21. Noah Rosenbloom,“Religious and Secular Co-Equality in S. R. Hirsch’s Educational Theory,” Jewish Social Studies 24, no. 4 (October 1962): 225. 22. Ibid., 230. 23. Ibid., 231. 24. Annie Landau, letter to the editor, Jewish Chronicle, December 7, 1894, 7. 25.“Westminster Jews’ Free School,” Jewish Chronicle, April 5, 1895, 26. 26. Gerry Black, Living Up West: Jewish Life in London’s West End (London: London Museum of...