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Biography Joseph Jacobs
Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 - 30 January 1916) was a literary and Jewish historian. He was a writer for the Jewish Encyclopaedia and a notable folklorist, creating several noteworthy collections of fairy tales.
Jacobs was born in Sydney,Australia, the son of John and Sarah Jacobs. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he won a scholarship for classics, mathematics and chemistry. He did not complete his studies in Sydney, but left for England at the age of 18 and entered St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1876, and in 1877 studied at the University of Berlin. He was secretary of the Society of Hebrew Literature from 1878 to 1884, and in 1882 came into prominence as the writer of a series of articles in The Times on the persecution of Jews in Russia. This led to the formation of the mansion house fund and committee, of which Jacobs was secretary from 1882 to 1900. During these years he gave much time to anthropological studies in connection with the Jewish race, and became an authority on the question.
Jacobs settled permanently in the United States. He wrote many articles for the Jewish Encyclopaedia, and was generally responsible for the style of the whole publication. It was completed in 1906, and he then became registrar and professor of English at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at New York. In 1908 he was appointed a member of the board of seven, which made a new English translation of the Bible for the Jewish Publication Society of America. In 1913 he resigned his positions at the seminary to become editor of the American Hebrew. He died on 30 January 1916. He married Georgina Horne and fathered two sons and a daughter. In 1920, Book I of his Jewish Contributions to Civilization, which was practically finished at the time of his death, was published at Philadelphia.
In addition to the books already mentioned, Jacobs edited The Fables of Aesop as First Printed by Caxton (1889), Painter's Palace of Pleasure (1890), Baltaser Gracian's Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892), Howell's Letters (1892), Barlaam and Josaphat (1896), The Thousand and One Nights (6 vols, 1896), and others. He was also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.
Works
Earliest English Version of the Fables of Bidpai (1888)
Fables of Aesop (1889)
English Fairy Tales (1890), which includes
Tom Tit Tot
The Three Sillies
The Rose-Tree
The Old Woman and Her Pig
How Jack Went to Seek his Fortune
Mr Vinegar
Nix Nought Nothing
Jack Hannaford
Binnorie
Mouse and Mouser
Cap O' Rushes
Teeny-Tiny
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
The Master and His Pupil
Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
The Story of the Three Bears
Jack the Giant Killer
Henny-Penny
Childe Rowland
Molly Whuppie
The Red Ettin
The Golden Arm
The History of Tom Thumb
Mr Fox
Lazy Jack
Johnny-Cake
Earl Mar's Daughter
Mr Miacca
Whittington and His Cat
The Strange Visitor
The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh
The Cat and the Mouse
The Fish and the Ring
The Magpie's Nest
Kate Crackernuts
The Cauld Lad of Hilton
The Ass, The Table and the Stick
Fairy Ointment
The Well of the World's End
Master of all Masters
The Three Heads of the Well
The Jews of Angevin England (1893)
More English Fairy Tales (1894)
The Pied Piper
Hereafterthis
The Golden Ball
My Own Self
Black Bull of Norroway
Yallery Brown
Three Feathers
Sir Gammer Vans
Tom Hickathrift
The Hedley Kow
Gobborn Seer
Lawkamercyme
Tattercoats
The Wee Bannock
Johnny Gloke
Coat o' Clay
The Three Cows
The Blinded Giant
Scrapefoot
The Pedlar of Swaffham
The Old Witch
The Three Wishes
The Buried Moon
A Son of Adam
The Children in the Wood
The Hobyahs
A Pottle o' Brains
The King of England and his Three Sons
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
Rushen Coatie
The King o' the Cats
Tamlane
The Stars in the Sky
News!
Puddock, Mousie and Ratton
The Little Bull-Calf
The Wee, Wee Mannie
Habetrot and Scantlie Mab
Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle
Catskin
Stupid's Cries
The Lambton Worm
The Wise Men of Gotham
Princess of Canterbury
Celtic Fairy Tales (1892)
Connla and the Fairy Maiden
Guleesh
The Field of Boliauns
The Horned Women
Conall Yellowclaw
Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
The Shepherd of Myddvai
The Sprightly Tailor
The Story of Deirdre
Munachar and Manachar
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
King O'Toole and his Goose
The Wooing of Olwen
Jack and his Comrades
The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
The Story-Teller at Fault
The Sea-Maiden
A Legend of Knockmany
Fair, Brown and Trembling
Jack and his Master
Beth Gellert
The Tale of Ivan
Andrew Coffey
The Battle of the Birds
Brewery of Eggshells
The Lad with the Goat-Skin
Notes and References
Studies in Biblical Archaeology (1894)
More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894)
The Fate of the Children of Lir
Jack the Cunning Thief
Powel, Prince of Dyfed
Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel
The Black Horse
The Vision of MacConglinney
Dream of Owen O'Mulready
Morraha
The Story of the McAndrew Family
The Farmer of Liddesdale
The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener
The Russet Dog
Smallhead and the King's Sons
The Legend of Knockgrafton
Elidore
The Leeching of Kayn's leg
How Fin went to the Kingdom of the Big Men
How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery
The Ridere of Riddles
The Tail
Contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia, from 1900
Indian Fairy Tales (1912)
The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
The Soothsayers Son
Harisarman
The Charmed Ring
The Talkative Tortoise
A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice
The Gold-Giving Serpent
The Son of Seven Queens
A Lesson for Kings
Pride Goes Before a Fall
Raja Rasalu
The Ass in the Lion's Skin
The Farmer and the Money-Lender
The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
The Prince and the Fakir
Why the Fish Laughed
The Demon with the Matted Hair
The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess
Sun, Moon, and Wind go out to Dinner
How the Wicked Sons were Duped
The Pigeon and the Crow
European Folk and Fairy Tales (1916)
Cinder-Maid
All Change
The King of the Fishes
Scissors
Beauty and the Beast
Reynard and Bruin
The Dancing Water, Singing Apple, and Speaking Bird
The Language of Animals
The Three Soldiers
A Dozen At a Blow
The Earl of Cattenborough
The Swan Maidens
Androcles and the Lion
Day Dreaming
Keep Cool
The Master Thief
The Unseen Bridegroom
The Master-Maid
A Visitor From Paradise
Inside Again
John the True
Johnnie and Grizzle
The Clever Lass
Thumbkin
Snowwhite
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