Harry Sacher

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Harry Sacher (born September 3, 1881 in London , † May 10, 1971 ) was a British lawyer, journalist and Zionist leader.

Sacher had been a journalist for the Manchester Guardian since 1905 . With his colleague Herbert Sidebotham as well as Leon Simon and other members of the Manchester School for Zionism , he founded the weekly journal Palestine . In connection with political pressure to enforce the desired Balfour Declaration , of which he was co-author, he published an article in Palestine in February 1917, according to which Sidon , Damascus and the eastern bank of the Jordan should also be part of the future Jewish state. In doing so, he annoyed Mark Sykes , who had just signed the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement with France , in which Lebanon was added to the French League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon .

In 1920 Sacher worked as a lawyer in Palestine . In 1925 he was together with Felix M. Warburg , Chaim Weizmann , Albert Einstein , Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud a member of the Board of Governors of the newly founded Hebrew University of Jerusalem . At the time, Warburg assessed him as a "strongly anti-Arab personality" and as "not conducive to Arab-Jewish relations".

Sacher was married to Miriam Marks, daughter of Michael Marks , the co-founder of Marks & Spencer . He became the company's director and historian. In addition to him, the Zionists Israel Sieff , who was married to Miriam's sister, and Simon Marks , the son of the company founder, were also in the company management .

Fonts (selection)

  • Zionism and the Jewish future . Murray. 1916
  • Israel, the establishment of a state . British Book Center. 1952, Hyperion. 1976
  • Zionist portraits, and other essays . Blond. 1959
  • Jewish emancipation . English Zionist Federation. 1917 online
  • Zionism and the Jewish future . Macmillan Company. 1916 online

literature

  • Jewish Book Council of America: Jewish Book Annual, Volume 18 , Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board, New York, 1961, p. 141.
  • Arthur Saul Super: Zionist Year Book, Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, London, 1969, p. 36.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Warburg and the Palestinian Arabs-A Reassessment ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , American Jewish Archives Journal 2003  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.americanjewisharchives.org
personal data
SURNAME Sacher, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author, Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1971