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Jaakoff Prelooker continued
Men's league for Women's Suffrage. President Sir John Cockburn. Had members in Hastings, including Jacob Prelooker. Congress held in London 23-
Jaakoff Prelooker wrote numerous articles and books, in several languages, here is a sample list: (fuller lists can be found online)
- 1885: Principles of Altruism in the Ethical Systems of Judaism and Christianity
The Future Prospects of Both Religions. - 1888: (in Yiddish) two issues of Rabbi Shalom, popularizing the "New Israel" movement
- 1890: (in Vienna, in German): Zivischen Judenthum, Christenthum, und alien anderen Religionen. Drama in einem Aufsuge und Zwei Bildern
- 1894: (first publication in English) The Hidden Jewel, or Ideas and Forms in Religion
- 1895: Under the Czar and Queen Victoria; The Experiences of a Russian Reformer
- 1897-
99: From the Stage to the Cross, an Anglo- Russian political novel , serialised in his journal, The Anglo-Russian. - 1900: 'The Lady Cavalier' : [Nadezhda Andreyevna Dourova] the marvellous story of a Russian girl who, disguised as a boy, entered the army, and bravely fought in many battles
- 1902: (rewritten in English) Rabbi Shalom on the Shores of the Black Sea, introducing quite new ideas, scenes and episodes, the publication of which would have been impossible in Russia.
- 1904: Russia, what she was, and what she is. An Excursion into a Land of Seething Volcanoes
THE BEGINNING OF REVOLUTION. -
In a recent book published by the exiled Jaakoff Prelooker, Russia is described as a land of seething volcanoes, and the description is fully borne out by our numerous cablegrams this morning. …...
- 1905: (in Russian) Wanted: an Anti-
Government Government. Russians, Poles, Jews, Finns, Armenians, Letts, Lithuanians, and others, unite - 1907: Heroes and Heroines of Russia. True and Thrilling Stories
- 1912: Under the Russian and British flags : a story of true experience with illus / by Jackoff Prelooker, containing also "The Lion and the Bear"
http://www.archive.org/stream/russianflashligh00prelrich/russianflashligh00prelrich_djvu.txt
Hastings & St Leonard’s Observer, 30 March, 1935 p.16
Hastings & St Leonard’s Observer, 26 October 1935, p.13
The Entertainer, February 2006, p.10 -
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