CONTENTS

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Preface[5]
[PART I]
The Story of Ahikar[17]
Philo on the “Contemplative Life”[24]
Josephus Against Apion[32]
Caecilius on the Sublime[39]
The Phoenix of Ezekielos[46]
The Letter of Sherira[53]
Nathan of Rome’s Dictionary[60]
The Sorrows of Tatnu[67]
[PART II]
Ibn Gebirol’s “Royal Crown”[77]
Bar Hisdai’s “Prince and Dervish”[84]
The Sarajevo Haggadah[91]
A Piyyut by Bar Abun[97]
Isaac’s Lamp and Jacob’s Well[102]
“Letters of Obscure Men”[108]
De Rossi’s “Light of the Eyes”[116]
Guarini and Luzzatto[122]
Hahn’s Note Book[129]
Leon Modena’s “Rites”[136]
[PART III]
Menasseh and Rembrandt[147]
Lancelot Addison of the Barbary Jews[153]
The Bodenschatz Pictures[160]
Lessing’s First Jewish Play[166]
Isaac Pinto’s Prayer-Book[171]
Mendelssohn’s “Jerusalem”[178]
Herder’s Anthology[184]
Walker’s “Theodore Cyphon”[191]
Horace Smith of the “Rejected Addresses”[199]
[PART IV]
Byron’s “Hebrew Melodies”[207]
Coleridge’s “Table Talk”[214]
Blanco White’s Sonnet[220]
Disraeli’s “Alroy”[226]
Robert Grant’s “Sacred Poems”[233]
Gutzkow’s “Uriel Acosta”[240]
Grace Aguilar’s “Spirit of Judaism”[247]
Isaac Leeser’s Bible[254]
Landor’s “Alfieri and Salomon”[260]
[PART V]
Browning’s “Ben Karshook”[269]
K. E. Franzos’ “Jews of Barnow”[276]
Herzberg’s “Family Papers”[283]
Longfellow’s “Judas Maccabæus”[290]
Artom’s Sermons[297]
Salkinson’s “Othello”[303]
“Life Thoughts” of Michael Henry[311]
The Poems of Emma Lazarus[319]
Conder’s “Tent Work in Palestine”[325]
Kalisch’s “Path and Goal”[333]
Franz Delitzsch’s “Iris”[340]
“The Pronaos” of I. M. Wise[347]
A Baedeker Litany[353]
Imber’s Song[359]
Index[365]