A HOMAGE TO MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,?When I had the privilege, some years ago, of entertaining the late Professor Graetz in my house, I held many a conversation with him touching the characters of some of the personages,?men of action and scholars??whose portraits he has limned with such consummate mastery in his great ” History of the Jews/’ And he was wont to observe with respect to them, Ich kenne diese Herren im Schlafrock, “I know these gentle? men in their morning gown”; meaning thereby that, by dint of care? fully studying their writings and probing the hidden springs of their action, he had grown familiar with them, as though they were living acquaintances, whom he had known personally, and with whom he had held sweet converse. I have endeavoured, as far as the stress of public duties permitted me, to study the various writings and to enter into the iuner life

Written by

Adler

Published in

Volume 1

1893

Other articles within the volume

• JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. REPORT, 1893-94 [etc.]
• THE DEBTS AND HOUSES OF THE JEWS OF HEREFORD IN 1290
• LITTLE ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN. RESEARCHES IN HISTORY, ARCHÆOLOGY, AND LEGEND
• CRYPTO-JEWS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
• A HOMAGE TO MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL
• THE DOMUS CONVERSORUM
• A HEBREW ELEGY
• A PLEA FOR ANGLO-JEWISH HISTORY, Inaugural Address delivered at the first meeting of the society, November 11th, 1893
• Anglo-Judaica in the Catalogue of the British Museum Hebrew Manuscripts
• The Northampton “Donum” of 1194
• The Lehman—Goldsmid Litigation
• “Theodore Cyphon.”
• Jews and the Coral Trade
• The Netherbury Tombstone
• Passes Issued to Jews in the Period 1689 to 1696
• Colonial Commerce
• Mrs. Brydges Willyams and Benjamin Disraeli
• Maria Fernandez de Carvajal
• Extracts from the Close Rolls, 1289—1368
• Charles Dickens and Eliza Davis
• A Petition from Haslemere in 1753
• The Bodleian Bowl
• PREFACE.