[HISTOIRE JUIVE] Élie SCHEID, History of the Jews of Alsace. Paris, Durlacher, 1888. Small in-8, corner boards, muted spine. Uncommon first edition of this fundamental text on the history of Alsatian Jewry. A good copy, despite its modest binding, with a handsome autograph letter from the author to his granddaughter Suzanne, dated 1907. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba