If you wish to enquire from the General Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, he is: Thomas H. Jeavons 1515 Cherry Street Philadelphia PA 19102-1479 tel (215) 241 7000 fax (215) 241 7045 e-mail conniebf@pym.org Elizabeth Elizabeth Duke Dunedin New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: <Reblen@aol.com> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:37 PM Subject: [Q-R] Heirs of Alfred Jacob Re Fons Vitae > To Whom It May Concern: > > I am requesting information about the heirs of Alfred B. Jacob (1889-1980). > Dr. Jacob taught Romance Languages at University of Pennsylvania and Franklin & > Marshall. During the Spanish Civil War he was in charge of child feeding in > the northeast region for the Friends Service Council of London > > My immediate purpose is to request copy permission for Professor Jacob's > translation of Solomon Ibn Gabirol's Fountain of Life (Fons Vitae) which he > prepared before his death in 1980 and which was published by the Sabian Publishing > Society in Stanwood, Washington. Professor Jacob's is the only complete > translation of this philosophical classic in English, and would be of inestimable > value to scholars if made more widely available. I would be prepared to invest > the labor for this purpose without remuneration or intent to profit > financially. I am planning to teach a class on this work in Fall, 2005. > > The biographical note on Professor Jacob in the book notes that his daughter > was publications manager for the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. > > Leonard Levin > 356 Redmond Rd. > South Orange, NJ 07079 > reblen@aol.com > > Adjunct Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy > Jewish Theological Seminary of America > New York, NY > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >