JUDAICA - ISAACS, Albert Augustus, Rev. (ed.).

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The Everlasting Nation. First and only editions of the first two years of Reverend Isaac's periodical for the Jewish people, gathering issues from May 1889 to December 1890. This rare publication includes the complete story of "The Star of Peace" by "Ben Abram," in which the adventures of Isaac Da Costa in Jamaica and in England were those of Isaacs's own father.We were unable to trace any copy in commerce, and only six in institutions; Library Hub locates three copies only (Edinburgh, UCL, BL) and WorldCat adds a further three (Harvard, Hebrew Union College, National Library of Israel). The Everlasting Nation was published between 1889 and 1892 and comprised four volumes in total. "There is no periodical in existence which professes to start from the stand-point, and to comprehend a like variety of topics, as those which are enumerated in the Programme of 'The Everlasting Nation'. The magazines which are connected with existing missionary work, are necessarily of a missionary character... But here our attitude is that of the Hebrew-Christian" (introduction). Albert Augustus Isaacs (1826-1903) was a 19th-century historian and anthropologist, specializing in the history of the Middle-Eastern Jewish and Arabic people. His travels familiarized him with Palestine, and he wrote, among others, The Dead Sea (1857) and A Pictorial Tour in the Holy Land (1858) which is illustrated with the many photographs he took himself. Born and baptised into the Church of England in Jamaica, Isaac

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