10 Facts About Marion Hartog

Marion Moss Hartog was an English Jewish poet, author, and educator.

Marion Hartog was the editor of the first Jewish women's periodical, The Jewish Sabbath Journal.

Marion Hartog's great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Portsmouth Jewish community, and her grandmother, Sarah Davids, was the first Jewish child born in Portsmouth.

Marion Hartog contributed "The Gift and the Loan," and other tales, to the Bradford Observer, which were afterwards reproduced by Isaac Leeser in the Occident.

Marion Hartog contributed to the Metropolitan Magazine, and subsequently the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish World.

Marion Hartog's pupils included her niece Sarah Marks, who moved in with the Marion Hartog family upon the death of her father in 1861.

In early 1855, Marion Hartog founded the first Jewish women's periodical, The Jewish Sabbath Journal; A Penny and Moral Magazine for the Young, consisting of stories, verses, and religious addresses.

Marion Hartog wrote little for the remaining 52 years of her life.

Marion Hartog died on 29 October 1907 at her home in Kilburn, London, at the age of eighty-six.

Marion Hartog's daughters were Helena Arsene Darmesteter, the portrait-painter, and Cecile Hartog, the composer and pianist.