![]() ![]() Simon's brother is Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. Due to the Limerick boycott in 1904, her father Henry Jaffé left the country and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ![]() ![]() They bought tickets for New York City, but were cheated, being instead dropped off at Cork, Ireland. Her parents fled the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. Simon's mother was Phyllis April Jaffé (1927–2019) from the Lithuanian branch of the Jaffe family. His father was psychotherapist Stephen Eric Sebag Montefiore (1926–2014), a great-grandson of the banker Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore, the nephew and heir of the wealthy philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore, considered by some "the most important Jew of the 19th century". Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in London. Including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2008), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), among others. Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore ( / ˌ s aɪ m ən ˌ s iː b æ ɡ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ f i ˈ ɔː r i/ born 27 June 1965) is a British historian, television presenter and author of popular history books and novels, ![]()
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