W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie - The Status of the Jews in Egypt

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With a Foreword by General Sir John Monash , G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.C.L.

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Being the Fifth Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Sunday,

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THE STATUS OF
THE JEWS IN EGYPT

BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.B.A.
Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University College

WITH A FOREWORD BY
Sir PHILIP SASSOON, Bart., M.P.

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First published in 1922

The Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture was founded in 1917, under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England, by his collaborators in the translation of The Service of the Synagogue, with the object of fostering Hebraic thought and learning in honour of an unworldly scholar. The Lecture is to be given annually in the anniversary week of his death, and the lectureship is to be open to men or women of any race or creed, who are to have absolute liberty in the treatment of their subject.

By Sir Philip Sassoon , Bart., M.P.

I thank the Society for the honour they have done me in asking me to preside upon so interesting an occasion. Professor Petrie needs no introduction; and I can but express the gratitude of the meeting to him for coming to lecture on an absorbing topic. We should have to go very far to find a more eminent Egyptologist. He is not limited to a discussion and criticism of other mens discoveries; he is a most successful excavator himself. He has with his own hands unearthed many objects of the deepest interest to all students of the remote Egyptian past. He has been engaged in this work for forty years, during thirty of which he has occupied the distinguished position of Professor of Egyptology at this University, where he has spoken with peculiar authority on the significance of his own and other mens discoveries, and has interpreted them to laymen such as myself. The late Arthur Davis, in whose memory these lectures are held, was a type of that rare and valuable man who, while engaged in business, is yet inspired by a studious ambition. He was a man above the average, who taught the lesson to the average man of affairs that the delights of learning are open to all those who are able to make use of the opportunities they can find and create. Such men are an honour to any cultured community.