Rebecca Sieff

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Rebecca Dora Sieff OBE (née Marks; Hebrew: רבקה סיף; 23 February 1890 – 8 January 1966) was a British Zionist and feminist. Sieff was a founding member and director of the Women's International Zionist Organization. Sieff was born on 23 February 1890 in Leeds to Michael Marks, a retailer and later co-founder of Marks & Spencer, and Hannah Marks (née Cohen). Her father was born to a Polish–Jewish family in Slonim, Grodno Governorate (present-day Belarus) and her mother was from a Russian-Jewish family. The second of five siblings, Sieff was the younger sister of the Simon Marks (later Baron Marks). In 1894, the family settled in Manchester where her father founded Marks & Spencer. Educated at the Manchester High School for Girls, and in 1908 Sieff enrolled at Manchester University in order to study English literature. Whilst at University, Sieff met her future husband Israel Sieff (later Baron Sieff) and befriended Chaim Weizmann. During the First World War, Sieff was active in charitable organizations that collected donations for the Jewish population of Poland (Charity Fund for Polish Jewry). In 1918 she was elected to the Council of the English Zionist Federation, being one of only three women elected to that body directly, and not as representatives of subordinate groups.