ISAACS, JACOB

ISAACS, JACOB
ISAACS, JACOB (1896–1973), literary scholar. Born in the East End of London, Isaacs was educated at Oxford and specialized in Shakespearean studies. He was interested in the Hebrew Bible as a literary source, which was reflected in his contribution to H. Wheeler Robinson's The Bible in Its Ancient and English Versions (1940). He was the first professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1942–45) and from 1952–64 was professor of English at London University. Isaacs became a well-known broadcaster on English literature on BBC radio and wrote The Background of Modern Poetry (1951). -ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB online.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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