Jewish History and Archives

IT is the privilege of age to be, within reason, not merely reminiscent but even autobiographical: and though I hope I shall not tax your patience long with the autobiography I must begin by claiming your indulgence for some exercise of that privilege. When I was invited to take office as President of this Society I was in two minds whether I could accept the invitation : not, you will readily conceive, because I failed to appreciate the very great honour it did me, for I am, I believe, only the third non-Jewish President in sixty years, and I was both touched and grateful that members of the Council thought me worthy of such a distinction. I hesitated because I felt honestly doubtful whether I could contribute anything in the way of a Presidential Address which would satisfy either you to hear or me to deliver. The names of past

Written by

Hilary Jenkinson

Published in

Volume 18

1953

Other articles within the volume

• Portuguese Jews in Jacobean London
• Sir George Jessel, 1824-1883
• REDCLIFFE NATHAN SALAMAN, F.R.S., M.D. (President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1920-22)
• ALBERT MONTEFIORE HYAMSON (President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1945-7; Honorary Editor of Publications, 1944-54)
• Medieval Sources for Anglo-Jewish History: the Problem of Publication
• Anglo-Jewry and the Development of American Jewish Life, 1775-1850
• Eighteenth Century Anglo-Jewry in and around Richmond, Surrey
• Anglo-Jewish Architects, and Architecture in the 18th and 19th Centuries
• Anglo-Jewish Silver
• Francis Town of Bond Street (1738-1826) and his family: With Further Notes on Early Anglo-Jewish Artists
• Israel Zangwill
• Some English Examples of the Mediaeval Representation of Church and Synagogue
• Don Pacifico,
• Jewish History and Archives
• Jacob Waley (1818-1873)
• Preface