Portion of a manuscript of daily prayers in the handwriting of Abraham Isaacs

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Registry of cases of circumcision by Abraham I. Abrahams in New York

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Opinion on Cohanim, in handwriting of Abraham H. Cohen, son of hazan Cohen of Philadelphia

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Resolutions in regarding Harmon Hendricks, Naphtali Judah, Abraham Touro, and Washington Hendricks

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Letter to Abraham Pinto regarding insult to Parnas

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Conversion certificate of Jacob Bar Abraham Abinu, copy made January 3, 1820

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Letter from Newport to K. K. S. I. regarding Abraham and Mathias Cohen, two poor men

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Service on the occasion of the visit of Abraham Defehr of Surinam to the synagogue

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O grande livro dos pintores, ou, arte da pintura : considerada em todas as suas partes, e demonstrada por princípios, com reflexões sober as obras d'alguns bons mestres, e sobre as faltas que nelles se encontraõ

Por Gerardo Lairesse ; traducção do francez de Ordem, e debaixo dos auspícios de Sua Alteza Real O Principe Regente N. S.

Race, space and politics in Mid-Victorian Ireland: the ethnologies of Abraham Hume and John McElheran

There has been much scholarly debate about the significance and influence of racialist thinking in the political and cultural history of nineteenth-century Ireland. With reference to that ongoing historiographical discussion, this paper considers the racial geographies and opposing political motivations of two Irish ethnologists, Abraham Hume and John McElheran, using their racialist regimes to query some of the common assumptions that have informed disagreements over the role and reach of racial typecasting in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. As well as examining in detail the racial imaginaries promulgated by Hume and McElheran, the paper also argues for the importance of situating racialist discourse in the spaces in which it was communicated and contested. Further, in highlighting the ways in which Hume and McElheran collapsed together race, class and religion, the paper troubles the utility of a crisp analytical distinction between those disputed categories.