Louisa de Rothschild

Louisa de Rothschild (née Montefiore), Lady de Rothschild (28 May 1821 – 22 September 1910), was an Anglo-Jewish philanthropist, and founding member of the Union of Jewish Women.

Louisa, née Montefiore, Lady de Rothschild

Born in England, the daughter of Abraham Montefiore,[1] she married Baron Anthony de Rothschild in 1840,[2] and was influential and able to push conventions that traditionally bound Jewish women at the time.[3][4]

She founded the first independent Jewish women's philanthropic associations, the Jewish Ladies' Benevolent Loan Society and the Ladies' Visiting Society in London in 1840.[5][6]

In 1885, she and Helen Lucas jointly paid for the cost of a nurse to work among the poor who were Jewish. Lucas would pay for two more in 1891 and 1892 and they were encouraged to use a traditional common sense approach to the help and sympathy they offered. Lucas believed that relief workers should give little priority to statistics or paperwork.[7]

References
  1. Miriam Rothschild (1983). Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies, and History. Balaban International Science Services. pp. 391/. ISBN 978-0-86689-019-9.
  2. Laura S. Strumingher (2006). The Life & Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild. Peter Lang. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-0-8204-7885-2. In 1842, at the age of seventeen, Charlotte followed what was becoming a family tradition by marrying a Rothschild. She married her … The next Rothschild to marry was Hannah's son Anthony, who wed his cousin Louisa Montefiore in 1840.
  3. W. Rubinstein; Michael A. Jolles (22 February 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 1598–. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.
  4. The Jewish Quarterly. Vol. 22–24. Jewish Literary Trust. 1974. In Louisa. Lady de Rothschild (1821–1910), he found a woman of intellect and wide literary tastes. A genuine personal friendship developed between them. It was based upon his respect for her opinions and her admiration for his literary ..
  5. Linda L. Clark (17 April 2008). Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge University Press. pp. 133–. ISBN 978-0-521-65098-4. Lady Louise Rothschild created the first independent Jewish women's philanthropic associations in London in 1840, the Jewish Ladies' Benevolent Loan Society and the Ladies' Visiting Society. Betty de Rothschild became a leader of Jewish ...
  6. "Lady Louise Rothschild | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  7. "Lucas [née Goldsmid], Helen (1835–1918), philanthropist and social worker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55195. Retrieved 17 December 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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