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Bidding Information
Lot #    4923
Auction End Date    6/25/2003 12:26:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    A Few Words to the Jews
Title (Hebrew)    by One of Themselves
Author    [Charlotte Montefiore - Women's Lit.]
City    London
Publisher    Savill & Edwards
Publication Date    1855
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [3] f., 210 p., 12 mo., 163:101 mm., light browning, loose in original boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Sermonics to women on Judaism. Charlotte Montefiore: Authoress; born in London 1818; died there July 2, 1854. She took an active part in the Jewish Ladies' Benevolent Loan and Visiting Society as well as in the Jewish Emigration Society, of which she was one of the founders. She was the active friend of the Jews' Free School, the Jews' Infant School, the West Metropolitan School, and of many other educational establishments. Her reading was extensive, especially in moral and ethical philosophy. She was a contributor to many publications calculated to improve and elevate Jewish youth. For the "Cheap Jewish Library" she wrote "The Way to Get Rich," "The Birthday," "Caleb Asher," etc.; she wrote also "A Few Words to the Jews" (London, 1851).Bibliography: Jew. Chron. July 14, 1854; Kayserling, Die Jüdischen Frauen, pp. 275-276.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica