Abstract
ABSTRACT Vera Bryce Salomons is best known as the founder of the L. A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem. Drawing on a privately published obituary volume, this article explores her involvement in attempts to buy Waqf property adjacent to the Kotel in the 1920s. The article brings to light a forgotten story with implications for our understanding of the role of British elites in Mandate Palestine. It demonstrates how private archives and unconventional sources can be used to illuminate the role of women in international Jewish history.
Highlights
Visiting the Salomons Museum in Kent is an intimate experience
A training and events venue, Broomhill was purchased by the future Sir David Salomons in 1829, at a time when the right of Jews to own land was still open to question
In 1937, Vera Bryce Salomons gave the property to Kent County Council, stipulating that it should be used as a college, museum, scientific institute or convalescent home and that two rooms should be used exclusively as a publicly accessible “memorial hall containing the mementos there relating to her father the late Sir David Lionel Salomons and his family.”1 The Old Library is dedicated to the memory of Vera’s siblings, parents and grandparents
Summary
Visiting the Salomons Museum in Kent is an intimate experience. a training and events venue, Broomhill was purchased by the future Sir David Salomons in 1829, at a time when the right of Jews to own land was still open to question.
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