From WAR AND GRACE – Short biographies from the World Wars, by Don Stephens, published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, England Reproduced by permission of the publishers http://www.epbooks.org/ Available in South Africa from http://www.christianbooks.co.za/ It was October 1914. The First World War had just started. On the western front French and German armies were already locked in […]

This biography was first published in the Neuer Zion’s Freund in 1965. This is an edited version of an English translation by Ruth Hanson for the British Messianic Jewish Alliance. Used with permission. Arnold Frank was born on 6 March 1859 in Schuja, Hungary, where his father was a respected magistrate. His parents were pious Jews and gave their eight […]

From WAR AND GRACE – Short biographies from the World Wars, by Don Stephens, published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, England Reproduced by permission of the publishers http://www.epbooks.org/ Available in South Africa from http://www.christianbooks.co.za/ Moving quickly, fourteen-year-old Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner, known as Hansie to family and friends, drew back the curtains of her bedroom window. Aroused early […]

Dr. Cahn and his wife had a large joint medical practice in Duisburg, Germany. One day, two Gestapo men appeared at their house and ordered him to remove his brass plate from the door, for, as a Jew, he was not allowed to attend non-Jewish patients. He and his wife were dumbfounded. The indignity of […]

Bernard Jean Bettelheim was born into a noted Jewish family in Pressburg, Hungary, in 1811. He studied, from a very early age, towards the goal of becoming a rabbi. It is said that by the age of ten he could read and write in French, German, and Hebrew, though if his biographies are to be believed, […]

Originally published in Zions Freund in September 1936. Dr. Althausen was born into a family of pious Jews in Russia. Because his father was a Rabbi, Adolf was educated for the same career. At the age of 18 years, he was already a teacher of the Talmud. Ten years later, he had to give up that […]

While many tributes have been published to mark the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn’s birth, and orchestras everywhere are playing to renewed appreciation the works that were left to us as his enduring legacy, it was anticipated soon after his death that “there may come a day yet, when the example of Mendelssohn’s life, yet more […]

Abraham Capadose was born on 22 August 1795 in Amsterdam. Both his parents, Isaac Haim Capadose and Esther Mendes da Costa, came from prominent Portuguese Jewish families. He qualified as physician and Leyden in 1818 and practiced in the Netherlands. This is shortened version of an auto-biography published in 1855 in ‘A VOICE FROM THE PIOUS DEAD […]

Frans Lion Cachet was born to a Jewish merchant family in Amsterdam in 1835. He met his Messiah in 1849 after his parents converted to Christianity. Sometime after this he came into contact with Pastor Witteveen of Ermelo in the Netherlands. Witteveen ran a charitable home for the “weary and heavy laden” and his humble life […]

I was raised in a devout Jewish home by my Jewish mother and because of her close connection with Rabbis, I was trained under their supervision, but the law of God , thus interpreted, only created in me great bitterness of heart and trouble of soul. At the age of five, I was able to […]