The Jews of Africa, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Mendelssohn Sidney D. 1917

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GIFT OF THE OF AFRICAJEWS THE OFAFRICAJEWS in the Sixteenth andEspecially Seventeenth Centuries BY SIDNEY MENDELSSOHN, ETC.F.Z.S., F.R.C.I., Author of Mendelssohn's South TheAfrican Bibliography, Jews of Asia, Pioneers South etc.Jewish of Africa, WITH A PORTRAIT OF AUTHORTHE LONDON: KEGAN TRUBNERPAUL, TRENCH, & CO.& LTD. NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTONCO., 1920 * MEMOIR OF AUTHOR MENDELSSOHN died in London after an illness of some months' durationon Septem- ber He had retired from26th, 1917. business,SIDNEY that of a diamond merchant in South Africa, about twelve and had come toyears earlier, England, there to devote his leisure to to work,reading, public and above all to the collection of hismagnificent library of works on South Africa and the of hiscompilation based on that collection.bibliographypriceless Mendelssohn was born at the sonSidney Bristol, of the minister of the not numerousvery Jewish there. The small thecommunity community being means of the minister were not theHowever,large. care of for the education of theirJewish parents children is and this devotion to educationproverbial, which is so notis,general among Jews surprisingly, even more the class to whichstrongly developedamong the of the of this memoirsubject belonged.

Sujets

• Jews
• África
• HIStory

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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GIFT OFTHE OF AFRICAJEWSTHE OFAFRICAJEWS
in the Sixteenth andEspecially
Seventeenth Centuries
BY
SIDNEY MENDELSSOHN,
ETC.F.Z.S., F.R.C.I.,
Author of
Mendelssohn's South TheAfrican Bibliography, Jews of Asia,
Pioneers South etc.Jewish of Africa,
WITH A PORTRAIT OF AUTHORTHE
LONDON: KEGAN TRUBNERPAUL, TRENCH,
& CO.& LTD. NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTONCO.,
1920
*