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We Have Reason to Believe was
published in 1959, when it received minimal attention. In the 1960s,
when Jacobs was being considered for firstly the position of principal
at Jews College and secondly as a rabbi at the New West End Synagogue,
Israel Brodie vetoed his application for these posts based upon
statements contained in this earlier publication. The book has been
reviewed many times over the next forty years and was reprinted, revised
and expanded five times.
In 1999, more than forty years after the publication of We Have Reason to Believe,
Jacobs wrote a systematic argument in defence of the criticism levied
against his original thesis so that the reader could "decide whether [he
has] presented a case beyond reasonable doubt" in his later publication
titled Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999/ 2000).
This timeline follows the changing reception of both of these
books, and there are pictures of items in the Louis Jacobs Archive
relating to both works. Each of these archival material reproductions
placed alongside the timeline can be enlarged by clicking the
thumbnails.
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