Israel Abrahams, MA (honoris causa) (b. London, 26 November 1858; d. Cambridge, 6 October 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation.
Abrahams taught secular subjects as well as homiletics at Jews' College, and was appointed senior tutor of that institution in 1900.
In 1889, he became joint editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review and helped materially to raise the prestige of the publication.
He was a prolific contributor to periodical literature, and was especially well known for his articles on literary subjects, which appeared weekly in the Jewish Chronicle under the title of "Books and Bookmen."
In 1902, after teaching for several years at Jews' College, Abrahams succeeded Solomon Schechter, who was moving to New York to head the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic literature at the University of Cambridge.