Bidspirit auction | ORDER OF SERVICE, OXFORD 1931.

ORDER OF SERVICE, OXFORD 1931. ORDER OF SERVICE ON THE OCCASION OF THE RECEPTION OF TWO SCROLLS OF THE LAW FROM THE CANTERBURY JEWISH CONGREGATION. The event coincided with the unveiling of tablets to mark the sites of the Oxford synagogue and cemetery during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the scene of the martyrdom of Haggai the proselyte at Osney in 1222, and the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Adolf Neubauer (1831-1907) Ph.D. Hon M.A., sub librarian of the Bodleian Library, reader in Rabbinics in the university and honorary fellow of Exeter college, the historian of the Jews of Oxford. Includes the legal agreement between the communities of Canterbury and Oxford to return the scrolls should the Jewish community of Canterbury ever be reinstated. Additionally contains prayers for the Royal Family, University, Mayor and citizens of Oxford as well as memorial prayers for the departed; both the Jewish residents of Oxford in medieval times up to those who perished in the great war. University press. Pages : 24 pages Size : 22cm. Condition : Fine condition