Report on the "Marranos" or Crypto-Jews of Portugal by Lucien Wolf.  
  Presented to the Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Council of the Anglo-Jewish Association, March, 1926.  

 
Author Wolf, Lucien
Place of Publication London
Publication Name Anglo-Jewish Association
Year 1926
Language(s) English
Description
RARE publication of the proposal to form an organization for the purpose of bringing the Marranos, or the Crypto-Jews of Portugal, back to Judaism, by Lucien Wolf (1857-1930) - an English Jewish journalist, historian, and advocate of Jewish rights, secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Board of Jewish Deputies. 235x175mm. 19 pages (+1). Marbled rebound Hardcover. Cover slightly yellowing and rubbed. Cover edges and corners worn. Spine and spine edges peeling. Sticker residues and glue-stains on spine. Binding loose and visible between endpaper and whitepage. Small worm-mark on front inner cover and few pages and whitepage upper edge. Inner cover and whitepages age-stained. Ex-library copy with stamps. Title and last pages age-stained and slightly dirty. Pen/pencil marks and 2 stickers on title page verso. Page 20 upper edge taped - no damage to text. Several pages slightly age-stained. Pages slightly creased in the middle. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare copy of the historically famous proposal, of interest to any student of Jewish history, has accumulated some damage, but is still in good reading condition
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Catalog Index Number MS 16 86


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