Category: Humour
The present volume contains a collection of essays, the majority of which were read as papers before various literary societies, such as the International Congress of Orientalists, the Biblical Archaeological Society, and the Jews' College Literary Association. Several of them...
The year 70 of the common era was a most disastrous one for the Jews. After having bravely struggled against the formidable armies of Vespasian and Titus for their national inde...
6. Part 6Gabirol died when he was only about thirty years of age. It is said that a Moor, who fancied himself to be a great poet, being jealous of Gabirol's success, which he was unable...
12. Part 12“My own son,” says the soul of the departed ‘Rebbe,’ “was once ill, and my wife, his mother, came to me and implored me to offer prayers to God that his life might be spared. ‘B...
8. Part 8And though he in that loathly prison pine, Where thou hast brought him though he willed it not; What fool will trust this idle tale of thine, That he and Dante should be thus fo...
14. Part 14Zachariah Frankel was born at Prague, in Austria, on October 1, 1801, corresponding to the 24th of _Tishri_, 5562. He was the son of well-to-do parents, both of whom belonged to...
2. Part 2In his last famous address to his people, which is commonly called his swan-song, Moses recalled to their mind the happy days, when God led them “as the eagle stirreth up his ne...
3. Part 3The ancient Hebrews were an art-loving people, and occupied a fair position among those Eastern nations of antiquity, who attained some success in the production of works of art...
9. Part 9As regards the merits, the conception, and the style of the _Ha-Topheth-ve-Ha-Eden_ it may be said that it holds a unique position in Hebrew literature. In the introduction the...
1. Part 1The present volume contains a collection of essays, the majority of which were read as papers before various literary societies, such as the International Congress of Orientalis...
7. Part 7Those who are acquainted with the Hebrew Bible, the Midrash, and the Talmud, cannot fail to appreciate the art with which Biblical phrases, used with an occasional striking play...
10. Part 10It would appear that it was intended by the author to be a parody on the manner in which Rabbis generally conducted discussions and debates on trivial questions, as described in...
13. Part 13Though the literary matter contained and discussed in _Die synagogale Poesie_ is extremely copious and interesting, it is impossible to do more, within the limits of a short ess...
11. Part 11“Now it so happened that the farmer had a shrew for a wife, and, wishing to live in peace with her, allowed himself to be ruled by her in all domestic affairs. One day, while oc...
4. Part 4An erroneous notion has long prevailed regarding the place assigned to the Hebrew woman at home and in society by the Mosaic law. Even now the idea obtains that the law placed t...
15. Part 15Even on his death-bed Heine could not refrain from a jest. Reviewing his by no means irreproachable past, he said he hoped that his heavenly Father would readily overlook his pe...
16. Part 16_Jabal_, 4. Jacobs, Joseph, 63 _n._ _Jahaziel_, 31. _Jahrbuch der deutschen Dante-Gesellschaft_, 87. _Jeduthun_, 30. Jehuda, Rabbi, surnamed “the prince,” 49. Jellinek, A., 143,...