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Object 7. Orientalist Congress at King's College, Cambridge

August 1954

Description:

Raphael Loewe lived in Cambridge during his adolescent years, whilst his father was a lecturer there, and he himself then became an undergraduate Classics student at St. John’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1942. Raphael’s academic capabilities were recognised and he was awarded a classical scholarship and the John Stewart Rannoch Scholarship for Hebrew Studies.

The Orientalists’ Congress had been an annual event prior to the First World War since the first congress in Paris, 1873. Herbert Loewe’s Congress memorabilia, papers and even travel documents remain in the collection and have been added to by Raphael Loewe’s own Congress material.

Photo of Israeli and other delegates at the Orientalists’ Congress in Cambridge, August 1954. The photograph is taken outside King’s College. Raphael is numbered as ‘9a’ and is in the middle of the back row. Despite Raphael’s description of the people as ‘Israeli delegates’, there are several notable figures of the Anglo-Jewish academic community such as Edward Ullendorf (8), Erwin Rosenthal (10), J. W. Parkes (15) and Meyer Fortes (25) the host at King’s College.

Credits: Leopold Muller Memorial Library, Raphael Loewe Pamphlets Collection, shelfmark: Cong I, 21a