"Chapters on Jewish Literature" by Israel Abrahams is the story of Jewish literature, after the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem in the year 70 of the Christian era, centers around the city of Jamnia. These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered extends over more than seventeen centuries. From the Midrash and its poetry to Saadiah of Fayum, this collection is a valuable text that preserves literary and cultural history.