Alice Julia Lucas (née Montefiore) (2 August 1851 – 25 March 1935) was a British Jewish poet, translator, and communal worker.
[1] Alongside her brother Claude Montefiore, she studied Judaism under Solomon Schechter at the Hochschule in Berlin.
[2] On 24 April 1873 she married barrister Henry Lucas, who later served as treasurer and vice-president of the United Synagogue.
She later published The Children's Pentateuch (1878) and a translation of David Cassel's Leitfaden für den Untericht in der jüdischen Geschichte und Literatur (1883), textbooks for children on the Torah and Jewish history, respectively.
[11] The volume contains original works, translations from medieval Hebrew poetry, poetic renderings of Talmudic legends, and re-workings of poems from the siddur, organized by reference to the weekly Torah portion.