Prayer booklet in memory of Lionel de Rothschild’s passing – the Portuguese Synagogue. London, 1942. Hebrew and English.
Memorial and comfort verses, and prayer El Maleh Rachamim for “the friend Levi son of the friend Shlomo de Rothschild”.
Major Lionel Nathan de Rothschild [1882-1942] was a British banker and politician, the son of the eldest son of Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), and part of the prominent Rothschild banking family in England. In 1910, he was elected to the House of Commons. In 1917, he was a partner in establishing the anti-Zionist league of British Jews. In 1919, Lionel acquired the Exbury House estate in Hampshire, where he invested time and a substantial amount of money to make it one of the most beautiful and flourishing gardens in all of England, with over a million plants. In the 1920s, he built Exbury House around an existing structure in the Neo-Georgian style. He also built a private railway to transport rocks to build the largest rock garden in the country. Upon his passing, he was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Willesden.
[3] pages. Stains. Good condition.
