Starrs and Jewish Charters Preserved in The British Museum, with Illustrative Documents,. [THREE VOLUME SET. HARDCOVER, wrappers bound in]

Published by Printed for the Jewish Historical Society of England at the Cambridge University Press, 1930, 1932, London, Cambridge, UK

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Since the set is very heavy, shipping outside the United States would be costly. VOLUME 1: With illustrative documents, translations and notes by the late Israel Abrahams and Rev. H.P. Stokes, with additions by Herbert Loewe. Volume 2: Supplementary Notes by Loewe with five excursuses by W. S. Holdsworth, F. Ashe Lincoln, W. Page, Archibald Jackson, H. Loewe. Volume 3: Indexes. Loewe, (1882-1940), an English orientalist, was born in London, the grandson of Louis Loewe. After completing his studies at Cambridge, he lived for a time as teacher in the Middle East and then held academic appointments in England. After his return from military service in India (1917-1919), he became lecturer in rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford, and in 1931 he taught rabbinics at Cambridge and was lecturer in Hebrew at the University of London. For a generation, he was regarded in English academic circles as the representative of Jewish scholarship, in the same way as Israel Abrahams had been regarded before him. Illustrated. V. 1: [i-v], vi-xxxvi, [1], 2-135 pages. 4 black & white plates including frontispiece. Vol. 2: cxxxi, 348 pages. V. 3: [1], 349-510. 39 photographs of seals, charters and other legal documents. Seller Inventory # 004859

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Title: Starrs and Jewish Charters Preserved in The ...

Publisher: Printed for the Jewish Historical Society of England at the Cambridge University Press, 1930, 1932, London, Cambridge, UK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +++

Edition: First Edition