ESSAYS AND PORTRAITS IN ANGLO-JEWISH HISTORY

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. 318 pages. Illustrated. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Jews - Great Britain - history. 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 Brandao; 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; The 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 version of "Adon Olam. " Roth (1899-1970) , editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, was born in London and went to Merton College, Oxford, where he showed an interest in Jewish history and liturgy as early as his undergraduate years. He was a reader in Jewish studies at Oxford for two and a half decades, until 1964, when he moved to Jerusalem, as a visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University. After a heart attack and being falsely accused of unorthodoxy, he left Bar-Ilan, and spent the rest of his life editing the Encyclopaedia Judaica and teaching at Queens College and Stern College in New York. Roth wrote and published profusely, with O. K. Rabinowitz's 1966 bibliography listing 572 items, though the actual number is over 600, including translations and editing of Haggadot. (Lipman, EJ) Has dust jacket with sunned spine. Very good condition. (MX-23-11).