Alice Montefiore Lucas
Alice Julia Lucas (née Montefiore) (2 August 1851 – 25 March 1935) was a British Jewish poet, translator, and communal worker. Alice Julia Montefiore was born in 1851, the elder daughter of Nathaniel M. Montefiore and Emma Goldsmid. Alongside her brother Claude Montefiore, she studied Judaism under Solomon Schechter at the Hochschule in Berlin. On 24 April 1873 she married barrister Henry Lucas, who later served as treasurer and vice-president of the United Synagogue. In 1900 she helped establish the Jewish Study Society, modelled after the Council of Jewish Women, of which she served as the first president. Lucas also sat on the women's committee of the Westminster Jews' Free School and its preparatory nursery, the Jews' Infant School.
Weekday Amidah | Bedtime Shema | Dying | Parashat b'Midbar | Parashat b'Shalaḥ | Parashat Éqev | Parashat Ḥayyei Sarah | Parashat Ki Tétsei | Parashat Lekh Lekha | Parashat Mas'ei | Parashat Naso | Parashat Pinḥas | Parashat Terumah | Parashat Vayetsei | Parashat Vayishlaḥ | Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers | 7th Day of Pesaḥ | Shirat ha-Yam | Travel
אמונה emunah | English vernacular prayer | Forgiveness | immigration | Mosheh Rabbenu | Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Settlement | פרשת עקב parashat Eqev | פרשת מסעי parashat masei | פרשת נשא parashat Naso | פרשת פנחס parashat Pinḥas | פרשת וישלח parashat Vayishlaḥ | Openers | Prayers as poems | ברכת כוהנים Priestly Blessing | Psalms 4 | Psalms 51 | פרשת במדבר parashat Bamidbar | פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ | פרשת חיי שרה parashat Ḥayyei Sarah | פרשת כי־תצא parashat Ki Tetsei | פרשת לך לך parashat Lekh Lekha | פרשת תרומה parashat Terumah | פרשת ויצא parashat Vayetsei | traveler | 19th century C.E. | 57th century A.M.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas
“Souls of the Righteous” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅬⅦ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Éqev) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 103.

