ANGLO-JEWISH COATS OF ARMS.

To speak of Jewish armorial bearings is scarcely accurate, for the coats of arms used by Jews are very seldom Jewish coats of arms. As a rule, the last thing Jewish applicants to Heralds’ College think of is the emblazonment of any reminiscence of their family traditions or their racial origin on the escutcheons which are intended to mark their rank in Gentile social life. This is exceedingly regrettable, both from the heraldic and the Jewish standpoint. No conscientious student of the ” gentle science ” can view with satisfaction the accumulation of spurious heraldic material utterly devoid of historical or genealogical value; nor can any chauvinist Jew be otherwise than disappointed that his brethren should elect to follow the examples of Gentile parvenus, when a proper and intelligent use of their own historical emblems and devices might found a branch of heraldry, rivalling, in its valid claim to antiquity,

Written by

Lucien Wolf

Published in

Volume 2

1894

Other articles within the volume

• JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.
• GASCON ROLLS.
• ANGLO-JEWISH COATS OF ARMS.
• PAUL OF BURGOS IN LONDON.
• HEBREW ELEGIES ON ENGLISH MONARCHS.
• A RAMBLE IN EAST ANGLIA.
• THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS OF ENGLAND AT THE TIME OF THEIR EXPULSION IN 1290
• IBN EZRA IN ENGLAND.
• HEBREW MELODY IN THE CONCERT ROOM.
• JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
• INDEX to the contents of the TRANSACTIONS OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Volumes I to XII and MISCELLANIES PART I
• An Unusual Form of the Prayer for the Royal Family. 1826
• The Jews of Jerusalem in the Seventeenth Century: An English Account
• Chebrah Rodphea Sholom: THE SOCIETY OF “PURSUERS OF PEACE”: Notes upon the first Jewish Friendly Society in England.
• Jacob Benider: Moroccan Envoy at the Court of St. James’ (1772)
• A New Starr of Huntingdon
• The Ketuboth of Bevis Marks
• Inventory of the Property of the Condemned Jews (1285): Part of a Pipe Roll in the Public Record Office.
• The Case of Thomas Fernandes before the Lisbon Inquisition.
• Was There a Domus Conversorum in Oxford?
• Carvajal and Pepys
• Jewish Tallies of the Thirteenth Century
• Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur and his Prayer Book
• PREFACE