Contents and Dedication Vol 16

<plain_text><page sequence="1">THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND</page><page sequence="2"></page><page sequence="3">THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND transactions SESSIONS 1945-1951 VOLUME XVI THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GOWER STREET, LONDON, W.C. 1. 1952</page><page sequence="4">The Society as a body is not responsible for statements made or opinions expressed by the contributors to this volume. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS, LTD., HERTFORD.</page><page sequence="5">Contents page Preface ............. vii War and Jewish History : Presidential Address by Albert M. Hyamson . . i Levi Barent Cohen and some of his Descendants : Presidential Address by the Right Honourable Lord Justice Cohen . . . . . . .11 Church and Synagogue in the Middle Ages : Presidential Address by Dr. James Parkes ............. 25 Solomon ben Joseph Buzaglo, by the late Herbert M. J. Loewe .... 35 The Damascus Affair?1840, by Albert M. Hyamson ...... 47 The Non-Christian Oath in English Law, by F. Ashe Lincoln, K.C. . . ?73 The Strayings of Paul Isaiah in England (1651-1656), by Wilfred S. Samuel . 77 Jewish Finance in Thirteenth-century England, by Peter Elman ... 89 Maimonides and England, by Dr. J. L. Teicher ....... 97 Sir Henry Finch (1558-1625) and the first English Advocates of Restoration of the Jews to Palestine, by Dr. Franz Kobler . . . . . .101 Sir Edward Brampton, by Cecil Roth . . . . . . . .121 Jewish Residents in Eighteenth-century Twickenham, by Mrs. Hilda F. Finberg 129 Grace Aguilar, by Mrs. Beth-Zion Lask Abrahams . . . . . 137 More Anglo-Jewish Leading Cases, by Professor Norman de M. Bentwich . 149 The Case of Dr. Lopez, by John Gwyer . . . . . . . 163 William Wollaston (1659-1724), English Deist and Rabbinic Scholar, by Rabbi Dr. Alexander Altmann . . . . . . . . . .185 A Hebrew Elegy on the York Martyrs, by Cecil Roth . . . . .213 Miscellanies The Honourable Mr. Justice Simeon Jacobs, C.M.G., by S. A. Rochlin (Johannes? burg) . . . . . . . . . . . . .221 A Petition for the Re-admission of the Jews to England, by Lee M. Friedman (Boston, U.S.A.). . . . 222 Two Livornese Jews in England, by Cecil Roth . . . . . .223 Alexander Raphael, M.P., by Albert M. Hyamson.225 Dr. Fernando Mendes ........... 226 Memorial Addresses Simon Dubnow, by Dr. A. Steinberg ........ 229 Simon Dubnow, by the late Paul Goodman . . . . . . .231 The Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, Chief Rabbi, by the Rev. Solomon Levy 236 Laws of the Society ........... 239 Officers, Council, etc. ........... 242 Publications of the Society . . . . . . . . . .244 Index .............. 247 ILLUSTRATIONS v</page></plain_text>