[52] Heine’s famous satire “Disputation” well characterises the futility of these public controversies; “der Jude wird verbrannt” was Lessing’s grim summary in Nathan der Weise. See also Schechter, Studies in Judaism, pp. 125 fol.
[53] Lord Curzon, Problems of the Far East, p. 298.
[54] Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, p. 407.
[55] Lord Curzon, Problems of the Far East, p. 303.
[56] Inferno, xi. 49–50.
[57] Deuter. xxiii. 19.
[58] Ps. xv. 1, 5.
[59] Koran (Sale’s tr.) ch. ii.
[60] Rep. 555 E.
[61] Laws, 742 c.