Sir Moses and Lady Judith Montefiore Jewish Emancipation Medal
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Reverse: Hebrew verse including “And Moses will be exalted and will go out to his brothers and he will be a bearer of their burdens.” The whole surrounded by a wreath of shamrock, rose, thistle, palm, oak and laurel intertwined with ribbons bearing names of places in which Montefiore undertook influential work on behalf of distressed Jews: Jerusalem, Damascus, Russia, Morocco and Romania.
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