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  One of the first cohort of Jews at Oxford in the late nineteenth century – and the first Jew to win the Hebrew prize

The First Notable Jew of the ‘Modern’ Period See the entry under  Isaac Abendana

Doyen of Jewish historians Lionel Edmund Kochan was born in Cricklewood, London, and educated at Haberdasher Aske School. His further education, which started when he

Born Aaron Mayevsky, London 13.2.1917; died Oxford 25.2.1998. Ron May was a quiet modest person who was never in the limelight. Yet he was much

Sir Isaiah Berlin was a Russian-British philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and as the

Cecil Roth has been described as one of the greatest Jewish historians of the 20th Century. As well as being an esteemed historian and educator

Professor David Patterson CBE, scholar of Modern Hebrew literature and educator, born Liverpool 10th June 1922, died Oxford, 10th December 2005. Born in Liverpool on