Essays and portraits in Anglo-Jewish history / by Cecil Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Cecil, 1899-1970.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Great Britain--History.

Jews.

Great Britain.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 318 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1962 5723.

Contents:

The Anglo-Jewish tradition

Philo-Semitism in England

Portraits and caricatures of Medieval English Jews

A day in the life of a Medieval English Jew

Jewish physicians in Medieval England

Medieval Lincoln Jewry and its synagogue

England and the Ninth of AB

Sir Edward Brampton, alias Duarte Brandão

The mystery of the resettlement

The Lord Mayor's salvers

Haham David Nieto

The Jew peddler-an 18th-century rural character

The king and the cabalist

A Jewish voice for peace in the War of American Independence

Lord George Gordon's conversion to Judaism

An early voice for synagogue reform in England

Educational abuses and reforms in Hanoverian England

Nelson and some Jews

The first Jew in Hampstead

The Chief Rabbinate of England

Moses Montefiore

The first Jewish M. P., 1858

The Court Jews of Edwardian England

English versions of "Adon Olam".

Notes:

"First edition."

"Designed by Sol Calvin Cohen."

Endpapers illustrated with "Trilingual Medal (Latin, Greek, Hebrew) in honor of King Henry VIII as Defender of the Faith, 1545".

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliography.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

602440