Stokes Gordon S
Northern Medical School, University of Sydney.
J Med Biogr. 2013 Feb;21(1):55-61. doi: 10.1258/jmb.2011.011029.
Walter Henry Anderson, a brewer's clerk in Burton-upon-Trent, became a missionary doctor, supported by a society promoting welfare and evangelism in Jewish communities abroad. His family background was rich in pastoral ministry at home and adventure abroad. Arguably, this background played a part in his decision to serve the Jews of Safed. His life in Palestine entailed much enterprise and hardship as he raised a family, fought disease and set up a mission hospital serving not only the Jewish community but persons of all faiths. His years in Palestine, from 1894 to 1915, were times of peace in the Middle East before the turmoil unleashed by the Great War. Jews from the Diaspora were gaining an increasing foothold in Palestine, their 'Promised Land'. Themes of that era - the rise of Zionism, confrontation between Judaism and evangelical Christianity, conflict between immigrant Jew and Palestinian Arab and the remarkable travels of Lawrence of Arabia were interwoven with the lives of Dr Anderson and his family.
沃尔特·亨利·安德森曾是特伦特河畔伯顿的一名啤酒厂职员，后来成为了一名传教医生，他得到了一个致力于促进国外犹太社区福利和传教的协会的支持。他的家庭背景既有国内丰富的牧师工作经历，也有国外的冒险经历。可以说，这种背景在他决定为萨法德的犹太人服务的过程中起到了一定作用。他在巴勒斯坦的生活充满了艰辛与事业拼搏，他组建了家庭，与疾病作斗争，并建立了一家不仅为犹太社区，也为所有信仰的人服务的传教医院。他在巴勒斯坦的岁月，从1894年到1915年，是第一次世界大战引发动荡之前中东地区的和平时期。散居在外的犹太人在他们的“应许之地”巴勒斯坦站稳了脚跟。那个时代的主题——犹太复国主义的兴起、犹太教与福音派基督教的对抗、犹太移民与巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的冲突以及阿拉伯的劳伦斯的非凡旅程——都与安德森博士及其家人的生活交织在一起。
