Re: Question from BBC

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

At 09:40 AM 8/13/2003 +0300, David Baron wrote:
>I used to live in Montpelier, Vermont. In their historical society building, 
>there is a library and manuscripts. I found a hand-written song-lyric 
>collection, a tremendous song-collector's resource which included many known 
>and also obscure ballads. One notably called Miriam cruel for doing brit milah 
>on her son Yeshua (it used their English names, of course). There was other 
>Jew-hating material as well.
> 
>Of course, on need look no farther than Shakespeare (though I would suggest 
>his motive was more for popular entertainment than personal hatred).

The Seminary Library published a catalogue on one of our exhibitions that might 
be appropriate to this topic. I don't know if there are any sheet music covers 
in the catalogue.The citation is below.  You may probably borrow the catalog on 
ILL or purchase it at: http://www.jtsa.edu/library/sales/books.shtml



 NC1763.J4J48 1995 Jewish Theological Seminary of America.Library.<<The>> Jew 
as other :a century of English caricature, 1730-1830 : an exhibition, April 
6-July 31, 1995 \ /the Library, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New 
York City.New York :The Library,[1995].72 p. :ill., facsims. ;23 cm.Works 
exhibited are primarily from the Israel Solomons Collection at the Library of 
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.Text by Frank Felsenstein.Exhibition 
curators: Frank Felsenstein and Sharon Liberman Mintz.Includes bibliographical 
references (p. 72).


Dr. Eliott Kahn
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