The Wanderers and Other Jewish Scholars of My Youth1

Map of Hampstead and Maida Vale showing homes of Schechter and the “Wandering Jews”. {from Bacon* s Atlas, 1885, in half’inch squares) Sch ? Solomon Schechter A ? Israel Abrahams G ? L. G. Greenberg B ? Herbert Bentwich D ? Arthur Davis M ? Asher Myers H ? Isidore Harris J ? Joseph Jacobs Z ? Israel Zangwill S ? Solomon J. Solomon
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I WAS greatly honoured by being chosen to be President of this august and learned Society. I realize that I have passed from the condition of an enfant terrible to a funny old thing’, but I am full of apprehension about my address this evening. When I read the addresses of my predecessors, which are preserved in the Transactions of the Society, I felt that I could not emulate that scholarly company in historical research. I thought that, being older than most of your Presidents,

Written by

Norman Bentwich,

Published in

Volume 20

1959

Other articles within the volume

• John Braham, Singer
• The Russian Background of the Anglo-American Jewish Immigration
• The Hope of Israel, A Breife Epistle, and Silex Scintillans
• Lewis Way and His Times
• The Jews in Medieval York
• Notes on the Jews’ Tribute in Jamaica
• Address [in Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Society]
• Lucien Wolf and Theodore Herzl
• The Pre-Expulsion Cemetery of the Jews in London
• Emunat Omen by Meyer Sch?mberg
• Dr. Meyer Schomberg’s Attack on the Jews of London, 174
• Some Ashkenazi Charities* in London at the End of the Eighteenth and the Beginning of the Nineteenth Centuries
• The Wanderers and Other Jewish Scholars of My Youth1
• The Correspondence of the Mahamad of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Preface