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Albert Goldsmid

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22: 76:. His father and maternal grandfather were born Jewish, and had converted to Christianity to achieve social and economic opportunities that were denied Jews. As an adult, Goldsmid converted to Judaism and always maintained that being Jewish had not impinged upon his military career. In his later years, he identified himself as the living personification of 136:
in the conflict with the Boers in 1899, he acted as chief staff-officer at the camp at Aldershot, and was entrusted with the duties of mobilization. In December, 1899, when the sixth division of the South-African field force was mobilized, Goldsmid was selected as chief staff-officer to General
129:, but retired from the task to take up his appointment as colonel-in-command of the Welsh regimental district at Cardiff in 1894. In 1897 he was promoted chief of staff, with the grade of assistant adjutant-general in the Thames district. 125:. He became adjutant of battalion in 1871, captain in May, 1878, major in 1883, lieutenant-colonel in 1888, and colonel on 21 April 1894. In 1892 Colonel Goldsmid was selected by Baron de Hirsch to supervise the Jewish colonies in 395: 169:
as the head of the British Zionist movement and the key contact in the failed Zionist effort to establish a British Zionist protectorate in the Northern Sinai area of
375: 64:, the son of Jessie Sarah (nÊe Goldsmit) and Henry Edward Goldsmid. Both of his parents were the great-grandchildren of Aaron Goldsmid, the founder of the 145:. During the earlier stages of the war he was commandant of the Orange River, Herbert, and Hay districts, 1900. After his service in South Africa, he was 86:. Eliot's book was transformative for Zionist development and understanding amongst Jews and non-Jews. Goldsmid's wife, Ida Stewart Hendriks, was also a 400: 390: 370: 101:
Goldsmid is buried at the Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery, London. He was the great-grandfather of American-born entertainer
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by her Protestant mother and Jewish-born father (Ida Hendriks' paternal great-great-great-grandfather had also been
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with the grade of assistant adjutant-general, and in that capacity was present at the
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The Tents of Michael, The Life and Times of Colonel Albert Williamson Goldsmid
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The tents of Michael: the life and times of Colonel Albert Williamson Goldsmid
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Proceedings of the ... World Congress of Jewish Studies, Part 2, Volume 3
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of Great Britain and Ireland. From 1896 to 1904 he was associated with
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Colonel
MVO
Jewish Lads' Brigade
Maccabaeans
Poona
British India
Goldsmid family
Frederic John Goldsmid
David Franks
George Eliot
Daniel Deronda
convert to Judaism
Christian
Aaron Goldsmid
Christopher Guest
5th Baron Haden-Guest
Sandhurst
104th Foot
Argentina
Redvers Buller
Thomas Kelly-Kenny
battle of Paardeberg
placed on half-pay
Zionist
Hovevei Zion
Theodor Herzl
El Arish

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