Samuel Schor, second generation JBY in Jerusalem

was born in Jerusalem on 17 August 1859, and was baptized in Christ Church, Jerusalem, on 11 September 1859. He was the second son of Nathan Israel Schor and Rachel, who was Nathan's second wife. Both his parents were refugees of sorts in the Jerusalem Community.

Nathan was a tailor from Austria, probably from Galicia. He was baptised in Cairon on 23 March 1850 by Christian Lazarus Lauria and Johann Rudolph Theophilus Lieder in the chapel of the CMS (Church Missionary Society). His first wife died in September 1851 and he was left with four young children.  He left Cairo and went to the LJS station in Jerusalem to find work and an arrangement for his children.

Nathan's second wife, Rachel was Samuel's mother and had been baptised in the LJS station on 2 April 1847. She had been abandoned at the age of 17 by her husband, when he reneged on the faith (according to missionary F.C. Ewald). After her baptism she married Judah Lyons on 28 July 1847, and after Judah's death she married Israel Nathan Schor on 27 March 1853.

Samuel Schor was educated in the Boys' School of the LJS in Jerusalem, first as a day student and later, in the end of 1871 as a boarder.

(taken from Mishkan 37/2002, Yoelit Migron, Samuel Schor, the Man and His Time)

Resources:

Migron, Yoelit. Samuel Schor, the Man and His Time, in Mishkan 37/2002, pp 5-20
Schor, S. Palestine and the Bible: Illustrating the Manners and Customs of the People in Bible Lands (London, 1931), 21-22
Schor, S. "Gleaning Mission from the Field", JI (April 1890), 60-61
Schor, S. "Palestine Light on Scripture Difficulties, I. The Hole in the Door", JMI (April. 1911), 58-59
Nine Oriental Songs, Arranged and collected by the Rev. Samuel Schor, London 1929.
Schor, S. "What I saw at the Zionist Congress in Basle", JMI (Nov. 1890), 174-5
Schor, S.  The Everlasting Nation and thier Coming King, pl 127 (London and Edinburgh [1933], 41-42
Wilkinson S. H. and Schor, S. The Future of Jerusalem. Its Successive Phase with Regard to Present Events, London 1917.
Schor, S. Palestine for the Jews; or the Awaking of the Jewish Nation, 2nd edition, London 1907.
Palestine in London. Official Guide, June 11 to July 2, 1907, 2nd edition, pp. 145, 1907
The Apocalypse, A Simple Exposition, London, the Barbican Mission to the Jews, [n.d.]
Samuel Shor, Intyrest Facts about Jerusalem, London Society, [n.d.]
S. Schor, Dreyfus and Zionism
Narrative of the Proceedings of the Great Council of Jews to Examine the Scriptures Concerning Christ, October 1650 (from "Catalogue of Works Published by the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews", Ninety-fourth Annual Report (1902), no pagination).

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