Letters of Jews Through the Ages

This first comprehensive selection surveys Jewish letter-writing from biblical days to the era of emancipation, ranging over nearly all the countries where Jews have lived, over all the languages in which they have written, and over official and intimate correspondence. The work is thus a treasury both of learned and eminent writings and of ingenuous, personal letters.
Exhibiting profound scholarship and sensitivity, Dr. Kobler places each letter or group of letters in context by a brief historical or biographical introduction, and often by a postscript noting the effect. In this way the annotations and letters form a connected narrative which traces the soul and history of the Jewish people.