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A Treasury of Jewish Letters: Letters from the Famous and the Humble

by Franz Kobler

Pages: 330

Contributors: Franz Kobler

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publication Year: 1953

Subjects: Jewish Letters

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Story of Jewish Letter-Writing

Part One: Letters from the Times of the Kings, Prophets, Priests and Makers of the Talmud from the End of the Eighth Century B.C.E. to the Fifth Century C.E.

I: King Hezekiah Invites the Children of Israel to a Solemn Passover Jerusalem

2: The Prophet Jeremiah Opens a New Epoch in Jewish History by His Epistle to the Exiles in Babylon

3: The Lachish Letters: an Original Correspondence from the Last Days of Solomon's Temple

4: Persian State Papers Which Changed the Course of Jewish History

5: The Elephantine Letters: News of Egyptian Jews from the Close of the Biblical Era

7: Jerusalem Invites Alexandria to Celebrate Hanukah

8: Jerusalem Greets Sparta

9: Jerusalem's Call to the Exiled Teacher of the Pharisees

10: Rabban Gamaliel Sends Messages Fixing the Calendar to the Jews Far and Near

11: King Agrippa I Depends the Sanctity, of the Temple Against the Emperor Caligula

12: Agrippa Ii, the Last Jewish King, Praises the History of the Jewish War by Flavius Josephus

13: The Byzantine Empress, Eudocia, Rouses the Messianic Hopes of the Jews

Part Two: Letters from the Geonic and Spanish Periods from the Eighth to the End of the Fifteenth Century

Part Two

15: Gaon Amram Sends the Model of the First Prayer Book to Spain

16: Saadia of Fayum Fights for the Rules of the Calendar and for the Ethics of Judaism

17: Karaites Versus Rabbanites: the Epistle of Sahal Ben Mazliah

18: An Early Hebrew Poetic Letter of Friendship

19: The Epic of a Letter and of a People - Hasdai Ibn Shaprut's Correspondence with Joseph, King of the Khazars

21: Solomon Ben Yehuda, Gaon of Palestine, Describes an Earthquake

22: Samuel Ha-Nagid's Consolatory Letter on the Death of Rabbi Hushiel, the Great Talmudist of Kairuan

23: A Jewish Diplomat of the Moslem King of Sicily Passes Through Alexandria

24: An Appeal for the Ransom of Captives

25: A Letter of Introduction for a Medieval Jew Who Travetled from Russia to Jerusalem

26: A Family Letter Written in Hebrew by a Jewess

27: Medieval Jewish Family Tragedies Related in Letters of Introduction

28: Two Episodes in the Life of Judah Halevi

29: Judah Ibn Tibbon's Letter of Admonition to His Son

30: Maimon Ben Joseph's Letter of Consolation

31: Letters of Maimonides

33: The Letters of Moses Nahmanides to His Sons from the Holy Land

34: Donna Sarah's Plea to Her Husband to Return to His Family

35: Joseph Ezobi's Wedding Poem to His Son

36: Rabbi Meir Ben Baruch of Rothenburg Answers Questions

37: A Jewish Physician Seeks a Safe-Conduct from England to Flanders

38: Faith Versus Reason Letters from the Struggle Between the Maimunists and Anti-Maimunists

39: A Correspondence on a Vow of Two Friends to Go to the Land of Israel

41: Rabbi Hasdai Crescas Gives an Account of the Spanish Massacres of 1391

42: "Be Not like Unto Thy Fathers" Profiat Duran's Polemical Letter on the Conversion of His Friend David Ben Goron

43: Isaac Zarfati Warns the Jews of Germany to Leave Their Country and to Settle in Turkey

44: Scenes from Medieval Anti-Jewish Trials

Notes

47: Two Letters of Don Isaac Abrabanel Before and After the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

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