Emanuel Deutsch letter to William Hepworth Dixon, 1865 Feb. 8.

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Emanuel Deutsch letter to William Hepworth Dixon, 1865 Feb. 8.

Deutsch writes to William Hepworth Dixon, editor of Athenaeum, dated 8 Feb. 1865. The letter mentions Deutsch's work, and suggests they could get together to exchange views on European writers.

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Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879

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Historian. From the description of Letters 1845-1876. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702669699 Dixon was born on June 30, 1821 at Great Ancoats in Manchester, England; wrote a five-act tragedy, The Azamoglan, which was privately printed; editor of Cheltenham Journal, 1846; called to bar in London, 1854, but never practiced law; contributor to the Athenaeum and the Daily News; wrote Life of William Penn (1851); editor of the Athenaeum, 1853-69; traveled widely and ...

Deutsch, Emanuel, 1829-1873

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Emanuel Deutsch was born in Germany of Jewish descent. He worked as a book cataloger for the British Museum, and in 1866 published an article in the Quarterly review, introducing the Talmud to a Christian audience and seeking to ease relations between the two religions. He visited Palestine in 1869 and became a Zionist. His friendship with George Eliot influenced her Zionist tendencies, espoused in her novel Daniel Deronda, in which the character of Mordecai is modeled on Deutsch. Fr...