Tag: Initiation Society

Chaim Nachman Bialik, Poems from the Hebrew, edited by L. V. Snowman with an introduction by Vladimir Jabotinsky, London 1924.

This interesting book of English translations of the great Hebrew Poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik was published in London in 1924. Chaim Nachman Bialik was born in Radi, in the Russian Empire in 1873.  He wrote mainly in Hebrew and also in Yiddish, and is regarded as Israel's national poet.  He was brought up in Zhytomyr … Continue reading Chaim Nachman Bialik, Poems from the Hebrew, edited by L. V. Snowman with an introduction by Vladimir Jabotinsky, London 1924. →

Laws of the Society for relieving the Poor on the Initiation of Their Children into the Holy Covenant of Abraham, reprinted 1886.

This little booklet was published by the Initiation Society, which was founded in 1745.  The Society set out rules for its mohelim and provided relief for the poor.                 More Laws follow here, followed by a list of subscribers and their addresses, which is scanned in full below: