Author · England
Joseph Jacobs
Died in 1916
Joseph Jacobs was born in 1854 in Sydney, into a Jewish family, and settled in London, where he worked on the history of the Jews of England and edited a folklore journal. From 1890 to 1894 he published four collections of English and Celtic tales, rewritten in plain language to be read to children, the scholarly apparatus being left to the notes. In 1900 he left for the United States to revise a Jewish encyclopaedia, taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, then edited a Jewish newspaper until his death in 1916.
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- TaleEnglish Fairy TalesJoseph Jacobs · 1890Literature