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Montefiores

Montefiores

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Oct 20, 2026

Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
2:01
And Montefiore is Italian.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
2:04
And the Montefiores were born, came from Livorno in Tuscany, and then they went to England in the 1790s.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
2:13
And they're both Jewish families.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
2:16
So that makes me a Sephardic Jewish scion of a family.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
1:45
And Montefiore is Italian.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
1:47
And the Montefiores were born and came from Livorno in Tuscany, and then they went to England in the 1790s.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
1:56
And they're both Jewish families.
Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
1:59
So that makes me a Sephardic Jewish scion of a family.
Gideon RothsteinHOST
16:51
It's a problem that these other people, the reason why he thinks that's true is that if children do it, we know why children will be paying attention to their parents' fate and situation and not to others.
Gideon RothsteinHOST
17:02
But if other people mix in, right? If just random Jews in London are seeing the graves of the Montefiores and saying, It's so sad for them.
Gideon RothsteinHOST
17:10
They're not buried in Israel.
Gideon RothsteinHOST
17:11
I want to help them be buried in Israel.
Tony GreensteinGUEST
15:11
He was related to Herbert Samuel and, uh, his father, I think it was, was, uh, a, an MP at the time and so on.
Tony GreensteinGUEST
15:20
It was called the Cousinhood 'cause they were all very, these Jewish families, whether it was the Rothschilds or the Montagus or the Montefiores, were very closely related and r- uh, economically entangled as well.
Tony GreensteinGUEST
15:34
But they saw Zionism as a threat to their own status.
Tony GreensteinGUEST
15:38
I mean, it, it goes back really.

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