JEWISH IDEALS, AND OTHER ESSAYS

New York; MacMillian, 1896. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. Xviii, 242 pages [1] folded leaf map. 23 cm. First edition. Fold out map "The following essays have appeared in various periodicals during the past eighteen years. " (Preface) This text explores the events and questions of modern Judaism through historical and philosophical examinations written by the author in the late 19th century. Contents: Jewish ideals, The God of Israel: a history, Mordecai, a protest against the critics, Browning's theology, The true, the only, and the complete solution of the Jewish question, Jehuda Halévi, poet and pilgrim, Jewish diffusion of folk-tales, The London Jewry, 1290, Little St. Hugh of Lincoln, "Aaron, son of the devil", Jewish history : its aims and methods. Joseph Jacobs was a "...Jewish historian, folklorist, and scholar. [...] He founded and edited (1896-99) the Jewish Year Book. His writings on medieval Anglo-Jewish history, culminating in his Jews of Angevin England (1893) , set the study of that subject on a new basis. In 1888 he went to Spain to inquire into the Jewish historical material there, the result being his An Enquiry into the Sources of the History of the Jews in Spain (1894) . In 1900, he was called to the U. S. As one of the editors of the Jewish Encyclopaedia. He not only edited, and largely wrote, the articles in the departments of anthropology and Anglo-Jewish history, but also gave direction to the whole work and wrote many articles on diverse subjects (e. G. , bibliography) in emergency. At the same time, he lectured at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, edited the American Jewish Year Book and the American Hebrew, etc. A work on Jewish Contributions to Civilisation was issued posthumously. He wrote a novel on the life of Jesus, As Others Saw Him (1895) . His output was vast and generally well written, and on a very high level. It is sometimes, however, marred by carelessness and haste - a result of economic conditions - and (especially in his early work) by the inadequacy of his Hebrew knowledge. "(EJ 2007) Subjects: Jews. Judaism. Jewish question. Hinges starting, some shelfwear. Very good condition. (AMR-43-41).