Elkan Nathan Adler

Elkan Nathan Adler (born July 24, 1861 in London ; † September 15, 1946 there ) was a British lawyer and academic traveler.

Adler came from a Jewish family. He became known as a collector of Hebraica and Judaica . He was anti-Zionist and in 1898, together with Samuel Montagu and others, drafted a manifesto against Herzl's project to found a Jewish colonial bank , while Moses Gaster was committed to the bank, which came into being that same year.

Elkan Adler was the half-brother of Hermann Adler .

Works

• About Hebrew Manuscripts . London etc .: Frowde, 1905
• Jews in Many Lands . (1905);
• Auto de Fe and Jew . (1908);
• A Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing . (1917)
• Catalog of hebrew manuscripts in the collection of Elkan Nathan Adler . Cambridge, 1921
• History of the Jews of London . (1930)
• Jewish Travelers . (1930, repr. 1966, The Broadway Travelers )
• The Adler Papyri . London: Milford, 1939

literature

• E. Levine: Elkan Nathan Adler: In Memoriam . In: Jewish Historical Society of England Miscellanies , 5 (1948), pp. 117-127.
• EncJud 2 , pp. 275-276.
• The Jewish year book , 315, Greenberg & Co., 1947.

Web links

• Goodman Lipkind:  ADLER, ELKAN NATHAN. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.