| Description | Draft, typescript essays by Moses Gaster, all entitled 'Things That Were', mainly regarding events and experiences from his life. These texts were dictated by him for his secretary to type out. It includes chapters with the following titles:
- 'Some Extracts From Zionist Life' (1934; 17 pages);
- 'Revival of Hebrew Language' (1934; 20 pages);
- 'Some Incidents from the Basle Congress' (1934; 5 pages);
- 'Shell-Company' (1935, 2 pages);
- 'The Communal Octopus', regarding the United Synagogue (1930, 10 pages);
- 'The Tents of Sham', regarding certain aspects of modern Jewish life (1931, 22 pages).
There are also other sections which cover him establishing a Jewish community in Palestine, the history of Romania, the history of the Jews, events in Germany (1933), Beaconfield's novel 'Alroy', Josef Sebag Montefiore and Eastcliffe Lodge, Samuel Montagu, and Israel Zangwill.
These papers are arranged in the order that they were found in, rather than a chronological order of when the sections were written. |