Guide to the Isidore Loeb Letter to Jacob Joseph
July 11, 1889
Collection Overview | |
| Creator: | Loeb, Isidore, 1839-1892 |
| Title: | Isidor Loeb letter to Joseph Jacobs |
| Dates: | 1889 |
| Size: | 1 folder |
| Abstract: | The collection consists of a manuscript letter from Isidore Loeb, a French rabbi and scholar, to Joseph Jacobs, an Australian-born folklore scholar who was also a historian of Jewish culture. In the letter, Loeb deciphers an Arabic seal. He acknowledges the assistance of Joseph Derenbourg, a French orientalist and educator. |
| Languages: | Materials are in French. |
| Call No: | 1987.002 |
Finding aid encoded June, 2010
Finding aid encoded in English.
Isidore Loeb (1839-1892) was born in France, and received his rabbinical diploma from the Séminaire Israélite de France in Paris in 1862. After several years in the rabbinate, he became the secretary of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, a position he held for the remainder of his life. At the Alliance, Loeb founded and developed the library, and engaged in numerous scholarly and literary pursuits in various areas including Jewish history, biblical and talmudic literature, and medieval historiography.
Source: Weill, Georges. "Loeb, Isidore." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Vol. 13. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 160. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 25 May 2010.
The collection consists of a letter from Isidore Loeb to Joseph Jacobs, an Australian-born folklore scholar and adapter of children's fairy tales, who was also a historian of Jewish culture. In the letter, Loeb deciphers an Arabic seal. He acknowledges the assistance of Joseph Derenbourg, a French orientalist and educator.
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