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
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Hilary Jenkinson
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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
