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Lot #    19971
Auction End Date    2/19/2008 11:04:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Anglo-Jewry and the Celebration of the Peace
Author    [Limited Ed.] Rev. Michael Adler
City    [London]
Publication Date    1919
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 12 pp. octavo 183:121 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Rare privately circulated monograph of a sermon delivered by Rev. Michael Adler in celebration of the peace at the conclusion of World War I. The sermon was delivered on July 6, 1919 “in harmony with our fellow citizens of all other creeds – and in willing obedience to the proclaimed desire of H. M. The King – we join to-day in the National Rejoicings at the signing of the Treaty of Peace. Our hearts are filled with at the cessation of hostilities.” The sermon addresses the feelings of Anglo-Jewry at this moment and concludes with the paying of homage to those who fell in the war, intent to dedicate a plaque, and the names that will be on it. Two names were apparently omitted by accident since they have been added in handwriting.

Rev. Michael Adler (1868–1944), English minister and historian. Born into an immigrant Russian-Jewish family, he later adopted the name Adler. In 1890 he was appointed minister of the newly founded Hammersmith Synagogue in London and was for many years minister of the Central Synagogue. In World War I he served as senior Jewish chaplain to the armed forces, receiving a medal for his efforts. He was also chairman of the Jewish Central Lads' Brigade. He published, mainly in the Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (of which he was president, 1934–36), a number of fundamental essays on the history of the Jews in England in the Middle Ages, based largely on documentary sources. Many of these were republished in his The Jews of Medieval England (1939). He also published two Hebrew grammars and edited British Jewry, Book of Honour (1922) on the service of the English Jews in World War I.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; JHSET, 15 (1946), 191–4; M. Adler, History of the Hammersmith Synagogue (1950), 9–13 (memoir by A. Barnett); The Times (Oct. 2, 1944); JC (Oct. 6, 1944).
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
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Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica