RARE monograph by Josef Meisl, a renowned German-Jewish archivist, historian of Polish and Russian Jewry, and founder of the Jewish Historical General Archives in Berlin. Heinrich Graetz(1817-1891) was the author of the most influential history of the Jews, one of the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Includes Graetz`s frontispiece and archival documents. 240x165 mm. 184 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover yellowing, slightly curved and slightly stained. Cover corners and edges bumped and slightly worn. Spine yellowing and worn. Spine torn and partly missing. Inner cover and several pages slightly stained - NO damage to text. Pencil inscription on front inner cover and some pages. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.