The Letters of Israel Abrahams from Egypt and Palestine in 1898*

The opportunity for me to contribute some small items to the fund of Anglo-Jewish history came my way in an unexpected manner.

In November 1959 there died my mother, herself a piece of Anglo-Jewish history. After her death, I was occupied for many months in clearing up the mass of paper which she had accumulated, for she had never, I believe, thrown away a single piece of paper since her marriage in 1894. The day came when I turned my attention to my mother’s writing case, of mahogany, about two feet high, with the initials F.A. in brass on the front. I fiddled about with the partitions, and released the spring of a secret drawer. On top lay my mother’s cheque-book for the year 1898; and underneath this lay a roll of letters, written by my father to my mother during his visit to Egypt and Palestine in the same

Written by

Phyllis Abrahams

Published in

Volume 24

1970

Other articles within the volume

• Norman Bentwich, 1883-1971*
• Jewish Colonies in Cyprus ? Further Information
• More Letters of Hazan de Sola
• The Selection of Jewish Children’s Names- Some Emendations
• Jews and the English Stage, 1667-1850
• The Community of the Resettlement, 1656-1684: A Social Survey*
• Joseph Gortissos and the War of the Spanish Succession*
• The Literary Career of Joseph Jacobs, 1876-1900*
• The British Press and Zionism in Herzl’s Time (1895-1904)*
• Abraham ben Naphtali Tang-A Precursor of the Anglo-Jewish Haskalah*
• On David Ricardo (1772-1823)*
• Naturalisation of Jews in England
• Foreign Trade of London Jews in the Seventeenth Century*
• Jewry of South-West England and some of its Australian Connections*
• The Letters of Israel Abrahams from Egypt and Palestine in 1898*
• Preface