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Born in 1854 Joseph Jacobs Died in 1916
Autobiography Joseph Jacobs was born in 1854. He was a Jewish writer, historian, and folklorist. He lived in England until 1900, he went to the United States to edit a revision of The Jewish Encyclopedia. He became a teacher at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and editor of the American Hebrew. His major contributions to Jewish history include Jews of Angevin England written in 1893, An Inquiry into the Sources of the History of the Jews in Spain written 1894, and Jewish Contributions to Civilization, an incomplete fragment written 1919, three years after he die. He wrote a story called Story of Geographical Discovery in1899, which went through a number of editions. From 1889 to 1900 he edited Folk Lore, the journal of the Folk-Lore Society. He compiled several collections of fairy tales and edited scholarly editions of Aesop's fables written in1889 and the Thousand and One Nights written in 1896. Joseph Jacobs died in 1916.
