Educated at Jews' College in London, Abrahams came from a scholarly family. After graduating, he stayed on at the College to teach. In 1888, he became an editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. In 1902, he was appointed reader in Talmudics at Cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his career. A talented and distinguished scholar, Abrahams produced a number of works on Judaism, the best of which was Jewish Life in the Middle Ages. He also founded the Jewish Historical Society of London. Other works of note were Chapters on Jewish History (1899), Judaism (1911), Studies in Pharisaism and the Gospels (1917) and Poetry and Religion (1920). |
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