Subject: Tales

This book, compiled by Isabel Cohen, is a collection of legends and tales in prose and verse. Published by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) around 1905, it notably includes an early poem by Emma Lazarus. A bookplate indicates its later presence in the Miriam Schonfield Memorial Library in Pittsburgh, dated April 4, 1940.

This book, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) in 5605 (1845), contains a selection of Hebrew tales translated from the writings of ancient Hebrew sages. The book received an Award of Merit in 1883, presented to Robert Sichel. This particular copy belonged to Rosella Ehrlich of the Philadelphia Hebrew Sunday School.