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christian converts from judaism -- england -- london -- history -- sources.1
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Archive Judaica Collection

Cecil Roth Collection

1200-1999

Throughout his life Cecil Roth (1899-1970) collected books, manuscripts, and art objects. The books and manuscripts of scholarly interest, and modern books, were acquired by Leeds University Library t...

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Archive Judaica File

[Letter of support to the Jews in Ethiopia (Beta Israel), October/November 1906–April 1908, signed by 1 secular Jewish leader and 43 rabbis from all over Europe, Pittsburg, PA (USA), Palestine, and Egypt (original)].

Faïtlovitch, Jacques

[1906–1908]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant title: Igeret el Yehude Ḥabash. (אגרת אל יהודי חבש (אתיופיה. Approximate dates of production may be derived from 2 dates given in the ...

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[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...

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