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Biography of the Rev. Henry Aaron Stern, D.D. - For More than Forty Years a Missionary amongst the Jews: Containing an Account of his Labours and Travels in Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia, Turkey, Abyssinia, and England (Paperback)
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Biography of the Rev. Henry Aaron Stern, D.D. - For More than Forty Years a Missionary amongst the Jews: Containing an Account of his Labours and Travels in Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia, Turkey, Abyssinia, and England (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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Henry Aaron Stern (1820 85), of German Jewish birth, moved to
London in 1839, converted to Christianity and became a lifelong
missionary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity
amongst the Jews. With his wife he preached in Palestine, Babylon,
Constantinople, Baghdad, Persia, and to the Karaite Jews of the
Crimea. Famously, in 1863, he was caught in a diplomatic dispute in
Ethiopia that led to his imprisonment and eventual rescue, five
years later, by a British military force. Stern was made a doctor
of divinity in 1881. He wrote three memoirs, which were drawn on by
Albert Augustus Isaacs (1826 1903), a vicar at Leicester who knew
Stern personally. Isaacs's biography, first published in 1886, is
hagiographic and written with religiosity. Nonetheless, it includes
informative accounts of missionary work among Jewish communities,
and remains a valuable source on the orientalism of Victorian
Britain.
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