Dr. Rev. Philipp BENDER^[1]

• Name	Philipp BENDER
  Title	Dr. Rev.
  Born	Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Source Reference	Who's Who of South Africa 1908
  Occupation	Rabbi
  Person ID	I33	Irish in South Africa
  Last Modified	4 Dec 2019

  
  

  Children	1. Rev. Alfred Philipp BENDER,   b. 16 Apr 1863, Dublin, Ireland ,   d. 18 Dec 1937, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2019
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Last Modified	4 Dec 2019
  Family ID	F106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] SESA, (Nationale Boekhandel), 275. Son of Philipp Bender, minister of the Dublin Hebrew congregation, he was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation scholar and Hutchinson Student and obtained his M.A. with Ist class honours. He was appointed minister to the Cape Town Hebrew congregation in 1895. An eloquent preacher and a brilliant public speaker, he contributed valuable original work to the Jewish Quarterly Review, then the most authoritative and scholarly Anglo Jewish periodical. Two volumes of his sermons were published posthumously: Sabbath sermons (1953). For more than 42 years Bender served the Jewish community of South Africa and, irrespective of creed, the public educational and charitable interests of the Cape. Until his death he was a member of the University Senate and of the Cape Hospital Board. When the school boards were first established in 1907, he was elected a member of the school board of the Cape Division at the head of the poll, and continued to be an active worker for education for the rest of his life. His labours in every worthy charitable cause are indicated by the remark, in 1904, of Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of the Cape Colony: 'When I want to see Mr. Bender I go to a charitable meeting.'