Seder Tephilah LeShachrith - A Small Prayer Book Compiled for the Use of her Pupils by Annie Landau, Headmistress of the Eveline de Rothschild School for Girls, Jerusalem.

(WOMEN’S LITERATURE).

A.M. Luncz

Jerusalem

Text in Hebrew with instructions in English. Front pastedown inscribed by the editor in English: “Birdie Landau, with love from Annie.”

Born in London and educated at the Samson Raphael Hirsch School in Frankfurt, Annie Landau (1873–1945) moved to Jerusalem in 1899 to teach English at the Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls. A year later she became its principal, a post she held until her death forty-five years later. The school was founded in 1854 in the Old City of Jerusalem by Dr. Albert Cohen. Baron Lionel de Rothschild became the school's patron in 1867, naming it after his daughter Evelina who had died the previous year. Later, the Anglo-Jewish Association took control of the school out of a desire to influence the developing cultural character of Eretz Israel. For more on Annie Landau, see https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/landau-annie-edith.