Lady Judith Montefiore née Barent-Cohen—mounted on a fine Arabian steed, armed with pistols, holsters festooned with wildflowers—was a worthy subject for a painter or a poet. An intrepid adventurer, international celebrity, and pioneering educator, she anonymously published important literary works straddling the Regency and Victorian Ages. Judith, together with her husband Sir Moses Montefiore, helped to shape the distinctive amalgam of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewry that became modern British Orthodox Judaism. She laid the foundations for the global Jewish educational project Alliance Israélite Universelle. Judith’s Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine [1827–1828] (London, 1836) and her highly influential 1838–1889 travel diary Notes from a Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine, by way of Italy and the Mediterranean with Extracts from Some of the Reports, Letters on Agriculture in the Holy Land received by Sir Moses Montefiore edited by Rev. Dr. Louis Loewe (Montefiore 1844) illuminate the history of the Romantic era. The Montefiores’s philanthropic and humanitarian work on behalf of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Europe and the Middle East was embedded in evangelical Christian political and social activism. The Jewish Manual; or Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette (1846) articulated Jewish values based upon the romantic ideal of feminine beauty—extolling an intellect shaped by spiritual, artistic, musical, and literary sensibilities.