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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 53

A Letter, to Express Sympathy with the Jews in Russia

A Letter, to Express Sympathy with the Jews in Russia,

Signed by the Resident Graduates of the University of Oxford, and forwarded to the Rev. the Chief Rabbi, Dr. N. M. Adler, in London, in the month of February, 1882.

"Sir,—We the undersigned, Resident Graduates of the University of Oxford, desire to convey through you to our fellow-countrymen of the Jewish faith the assurance of our sympathy with your people in Russia under the grievous sufferings and wrongs which have recently befallen them. We have heard with surprise and indignation of outbreaks which seem to recall the unreasoning antipathies and savage cruelties of the Middle Ages. We earnestly hope that the day may not be distant when in every country all loyal subjects shall be equal before the law, and public opinion shall secure equal justice for all alike without distinction of race or creed."

Signed:—E. Evans, D.D., Master of Pembroke College and Vice-Chancellor of the University; J. F. Bright, M.A., Master of University College; B. Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek; G. C. Brodrick, M.A., Warden of Merton College; J. P. Lightfoot, D.D., Rector of Exeter College; J. R. Magrath, D.D., Provost of Queen's College; J. E. Sewell, D.D., Warden of New College; W. R. Anson, D.C.L., Warden of All Soul's College; page 30 F. Bulley, D.D., President of Magdalen College; E. H. Cradock, D.D., Principal of Brasenose College; J. Percival, M.A., President of Trinity College; H. D. Harper, D.D., Principal of Jesus College; G. E. Thorley, M.A., Warden of Wadham College; W.Inge, M.A., Provost of Worcester College; E. S. Talbot, M.A., Warden of Keble College; D. P. Chase, D.D., Principal of St. Mary's Hall; J. Griffiths, D.D., late Warden of Wadham College; W. Ince, D.D., Canon of Christchurch, Regius Professor of Divinity; C. A. Heurtley, D.D., Canon of Christchurch, Margaret Professor of Divinity; W. Bright, D.D., Canon of Christchurch, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History; E. King, D.D., Canon of Christchurch, Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology; Edwin Palmer, D.D., Canon of Christchurch, Archdeacon of Oxford, late Professor of Latin; H. J. S. Smith, M.A., Savilian Professor of Geometry, Fellow of Corpus; C. Pritchard, D.D., Savilian Professor of Astronomy; Bartholomew Price, Savilian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Fellow of Pembroke; T. H. Green, M.A., Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy, Fellow of Balliol; G. Rawlinson, M.A., Camden Professor of Ancient History; M. A. Lawson, M.A., Professor of Botany; G. F. Nicholl, M.A., Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Oriental Lecturer of Balliol College; W. Stubbs, D.D., Regius Professor of Modem History; J. Earle. M.A., Professor of Anglo-Saxon; Joseph Prestwich, M.A., Professor of Geology; Monier Williams, D.C.L., Professor of Sanskrit; H. Nettle-ship, M.A., Professor of Latin, Fellow of Corpus; T. E. Holland. D.C.L., Professor of International Law, Fellow of All Souls; Montagu Burrows, M.A., Chichele Professor of Modern History, Fellow of All Souls; W. Odling, M.A., Professor of Chemistry; J. O. Westwood, M.A., Professor of Zoology; F. Max Muller, M.A., Professor of Comparative Philology, Fellow of All Souls; A. H. Sayce, M.A., Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology, Fellow of Queen's; James Legge, M.A., Professor of Chinese; J. Rhys, M.A., Professor of Celtic, Fellow of Jesus; W. W. Capes, M.A., University Reader in Ancient History, Fellow and Tutor of Hertford; E. T. Turner, M.A., Registrar of the University, Fellow of Brazenose; W. W. Merry, M.A., Public Orator, Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln; William Markby, D.C.L., Merton College, University Reader in Indian Law; J. T. Platts, M.A., Balliol College, University Teacher of Persian; A. P. Thomas, M.A., Demonstrator of Anatomy, University Museum; E. J. Stone, M.A., Christ Church, Ratcliffe Observer; A. G. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., Christ Church, Lee's Reader in Chemistry; J. Barclay Thompson, M.A., Christ Church, Lee's Reader in Anatomy; Robert E. Baynes, M.A., Christ Church, Lee's Reader in Physics; Sidney J. Owen, M.A., Christ Church, Lee's Reader in Indian History; Francis Paget, M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church; Henry Scott Holland, M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church; David B. Munro, M.A., Fellow and Vice-Provost of Oriel College; F. H. Bradley, M.A., Fellow of Merton College. W.Wallace, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Merton College; W. Warde Fowler, M.A., Sub-Rector of Lincoln College; John Wordsworth, M.A., Tutor and late Fellow of Brasenose College; Walter H. Pater, Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College; C. B. Heberden, M.A., Junior page 31 Proctor, Fellow and Tutor of Brazenosc College; S. H. Butcher, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of University College; A. L. Chavasse, M.A., Tutor and Fellow of University College; Arthur Dendy, B.C.L., Dean and Fellow of University College; E. Armstrong M.A., Fellow of Queen's College; Wm. H. Charsley, M.A., Master of Charsley's Hall; G. W. Kitchin, M.A., Christ Church, Censor of Unattached Students of the University; James E. Thorold Rogers, M.A., Worcester College, M.P. for Southward Edwin Wallace, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College; P. A. Henderson, M.A., Sub-Warden and Fellow of Wadham College; W. W. Jackson, M.A., Sub-Rector of Exeter College; Ingram Bywater, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College; Henry F. Pelham, M.A., Lecturer and formerly Fellow of Exeter College; Henry F. Tozer, M.A., Tutor and formerly Fellow of Exeter College: W. Hawker Hughes, M.A., Fellow, Tutor, and Dean of Jesus College; Edmund S. Ffoulkcs, B.D., Jesus College, Vicar of St. Mary's; A. T. Barton, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Pembroke College; A. T. Lyttelton, M.A., Tutor of Keble College; Francis J. Chavasse, M.A., Corpus Christi College; Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., Tutor of Corpus; James Trengrove Nance, B.D., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College; F. H. Woods, B.D., Fellow of St. John's College; H. Chaloner Ogle, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College; Chas. J. F. Yule, M.A., Vice-President of Magdalen College; Evelyn Abbott, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Balliol; R. L. Nettleship, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Balliol; G. F. Lovell, B.U., Balliol College, Vice-Principal of St. Edmund's Hall; S. R. Driver, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of New College; Wm. Leonard Courtney, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of New College; D. S. Margoliouth, B.A., Fellow and Lecturer of New College; Alfred Robinson, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of New College; R. Ellis, M.A., Vice-President of Trinity College; R. W. Raper, B.C.L., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College; A. H. Johnson, M.A., Lecturer of Trinity College, late Fellow of All Souls; W. P. Ker, M.A., Fellow of All Souls; C. N. Jackson, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Hertford, Senior Proctor.

And 150 other signatures.

To this address the following reply was sent by the Rev. the Chief Rabbi:—

"Reverend Sir,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the address signed by yourself and 245 resident members of the University of Oxford, in which you express your sympathy with my suffering co-religionists in Russia, your indignation at the cruelties which have been inflicted on them, and your hopes for the speedy advent of an era of religious equality. In the name of my community I beg to assure you of our heartfelt gratitude for this noble and spontaneous declaration. Such sentiments emanating from your ancient University, from men whose position in the realm of thought and learning lends to their utterances an exceptional weight, cannot fail to produce a profound impression and lasting effect throughout the civilised world. page 32 Such a declaration in itself cannot fail to hasten the realisation of your hopes for the not distant day when everywhere equal rights and equal justice will be dealt to all as a common heritage of humanity without distinction of race or creed.

"I have the honour to be, Reverend Sir, "

Yours faithfully

,

"N. Adler.

"The Rev. T. Evans, D.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford."

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