PREFATORY NOTE
T HIS Book of Jewish Thoughts brings the message of Judaism together with memories of Jewish martyrdom and spiritual achievement throughout the ages. Its first part, ‘I am an Hebrew’, covers the more important aspects of the life and consciousness of the Jew. The second, ‘The People of the Book’, deals with Israel’s religious contribution to mankind, and touches upon some epochal events in Israel’s story. In the third, ‘The Testimony of the Nations’, will be found some striking tributes to Jews and Judaism from non-Jewish sources. The fourth part, ‘The Voice of Prayer’, surveys the Sacred Occasions of the Jewish Year, and takes note of their echoes in the Liturgy. The fifth and concluding part, ‘The Voice of Wisdom’, is, in the main, a collection of the deep sayings of the Jewish sages on the ultimate problems of Life and the Hereafter.
The nucleus from which this Jewish anthology gradually developed was produced three years ago for the use of Jewish sailors and soldiers. To many of them, I have been assured, it came as a re-discovery of the imperishable wealth of Israel’s heritage; whileto the non-Jew into whose hands it fell it was a striking revelation of Jewish ideals and teachings. I can pray for no better result for this enlarged Library Edition.
Grateful acknowledgement is due to the authors, translators, and publishers, for their courteous permission to reprint selections from their works; to Dayan H. M. Lazarus, M.A., and Miss Elsa Linde, for various useful suggestions; and to the Revs. J. Mann, D.Litt., S. Lipson, and I. Livingstone for help in the preparation of the Index of Subjects.
J. H. H.
London, 1920.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| [ I.] | I AM AN HEBREW |
| [◆] | YE ARE MY WITNESSES: Isaiah; Jacobs; Aguilar |
| [◆] | I AM AN HEBREW: C. Adler |
| [◆] | THE GOOD FIGHT: Eleazar of Worms |
| [◆] | EVERY ISRAELITE HOLDS THE HONOUR OF HIS ENTIRE PEOPLE IN HIS HANDS: Talmud; Montefiore |
| [◆] | THE PATHS OF LIFE: Eliezer ben Isaac; Asher ben Yechiel |
| [◆] | IN THE OLD GHETTO: Philipson; E. G. Hirsch |
| [◆] | THE JEWISH WOMAN: M. Lazarus; Hertz; Talmud |
| [◆] | THE JEWISH MOTHER: Szold; Lucas |
| [◆] | RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Cohen; Book of Morals; Morais |
| [◆] | THE SACRED TONGUE: Joseph |
| [◆] | THE HEBREW LANGUAGE: Schechter; Szold |
| [◆] | WHAT IS CULTURE? Hertz |
| [◆] | THE STUDENT OF THE TORAH: Jellinek |
| [◆] | BAR MITZVAH PRAYER: Artom |
| [◆] | ON THE THRESHOLD OF MANHOOD: Proverbs; Ethics of the Fathers |
| [◆] | A FATHER’S ADMONITION: Maimonides |
| [◆] | WHAT MAKES A MAN A JEW? Joseph |
| [◆] | ‘I BELIEVE’: Margolis |
| [◆] | JUDAISM A POSITIVE RELIGION: Schechter |
| [◆] | THE MISSION OF ISRAEL: H. Adler; Kohler |
| [◆] | TOLERANCE: Gabirol; Midrash; Crescas; Mendelssohn; Talmud |
| [◆] | OUR HERITAGE: Josephus |
| [◆] | OUR FATHERS: Ecclesiasticus |
| [◆] | THE OBLIGATIONS OF HEREDITY: Dubnow; Hertz |
| [◆] | ZEDAKAH—CHARITY: Jacob ben Asher |
| [◆] | ZEDAKAH—JUSTICE: Geiger |
| [◆] | THE JEWISH POOR: Schechter; Abrahams |
| [◆] | AT ‘THE OLD PEOPLE’S REST’, JERUSALEM: E. N. Adler |
| [◆] | SHARING THE BURDEN: Talmud; Singer |
| [◆] | THE DUTY OF SELF-RESPECT: Achad Ha’am |
| [◆] | ANTI-SEMITISM: Nordau; Schechter; Nordau; Disraeli; Hertz; Hagadah; Isaiah |
| [◆] | THE JEW AS A PATRIOT: E. Lazarus; Goldsmid |
| [◆] | THE JEWISH SOLDIER: Lucas |
| [◆] | THE JEW’S LOVE OF BRITAIN: H. Adler |
| [◆] | TO ENGLAND: Raskin |
| [◆] | JUDAISM AND THE JEW IN AMERICA: Harris; Kohut |
| [◆] | THE DELUGE OF FIRE: Hertz |
| [◆] | THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS: Joel; Isaiah; Kings; Daily Prayer Book |
| [◆] | THE MESSIANIC HOPE: Mendes; Malachi |
| [◆] | THE VISION OF A UNITED HUMANITY: Isaiah; Joseph |
| [◆] | TRUST YE IN THE LORD FOR EVER: Isaiah |
| [ II.] | THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK |
| [◆] | ISRAEL IMMORTAL: Jeremiah; Halevi; Ecclesiasticus; Midrash |
| [◆] | THE ETERNAL RIDDLE: Raskin |
| [◆] | THE SECRET OF ISRAEL’S IMMORTALITY: Graetz |
| [◆] | THE BOOK OF BOOKS: Heine |
| [◆] | THE BIBLE: Levi; Zangwill |
| [◆] | A JEWISH VERSION OF THE BIBLE: Schechter; Friedländer; Sulzberger; Leeser; H. Adler; Translators’ Preface; Rashi; Ecclesiasticus |
| [◆] | ISRAEL THE PEOPLE OF REVELATION: Halevi; Geiger |
| [◆] | THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD AND ISRAEL IS HIS PROPHET: Zangwill |
| [◆] | MOSES: Heine |
| [◆] | THE PROPHETS: Jacobs; Shemtob; Darmesteter; J. Lazarus |
| [◆] | THE TALMUD: Deutsch |
| [◆] | JEWISH LITERATURE: Abrahams |
| [◆] | THE WORK OF THE RABBIS: Büchler |
| [◆] | ISRAEL’S HISTORY NEVER-ENDING: Magnus; Zangwill |
| [◆] | THE MEANING OF JEWISH HISTORY: Jacobs; Halevi; Gaster |
| [◆] | THE HALLOWING OF JEWISH HISTORY: Dubnow |
| [◆] | ISRAEL’S MARTYRDOM: Zunz; Graetz |
| [◆] | UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS: Josephus; Fuerst |
| [◆] | IN MEDIAEVAL ROME: Hertz; Steinschneider |
| [◆] | THE FIRST CRUSADE: Kalonymos ben Yehudah |
| [◆] | THE SECOND CRUSADE: Ephraim of Bonn |
| [◆] | JEWISH SUFFERING: Heine |
| [◆] | THE JEWS OF YORK: D’Israeli |
| [◆] | THE EXPULSION FROM SPAIN: Frankl |
| [◆] | THE EXODUS: E. Lazarus |
| [◆] | A SONG OF REDEMPTION: Gabirol |
| [◆] | SHYLOCK: Joseph |
| [◆] | ON THE EVE OF THE RE-SETTLEMENT IN ENGLAND: Manasseh ben Israel |
| [◆] | JEWISH EMANCIPATION: S. R. Hirsch; Rothschild |
| [◆] | THE JEWISH QUESTION: J. Lazarus; Franzos; Steinschneider; Zunz |
| [◆] | THE JEWS OF ENGLAND: Zangwill |
| [◆] | WELCOME OF THE HEBREW CONGREGATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, U.S.A., TO GEORGE WASHINGTON |
| [◆] | BRITISH CITIZENSHIP: Hertz |
| [◆] | THE RUSSIAN JEW: I. Friedlander |
| [◆] | YIDDISH: Zangwill; Wiener |
| [◆] | RUSSO-JEWISH EDUCATION: I. Friedlander |
| [◆] | PASSOVER IN OLD RUSSIA: Antin |
| [◆] | THE POGROM: Dymov |
| [◆] | UNDER THE ROMANOFFS: Wolf; E. Lazarus |
| [◆] | SOLDIERS OF NICHOLAS: Antin |
| [◆] | BONTZYE SHWEIG: Peretz |
| [◆] | THE WATCH ON THE JORDAN: Imber |
| [◆] | THE TRAGEDY OF ASSIMILATION: Schechter; Achad Ha’am |
| [◆] | THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES: Ezekiel |
| [◆] | PALESTINE: Munk |
| [◆] | THE LAST CORPSES IN THE DESERT: Byalik |
| [◆] | ZIONISM: Herzl; Wolf; Abrahams |
| [◆] | THE BRITISH DECLARATION ON PALESTINE: Herzl; Jewish Chronicle; Hertz |
| [◆] | JUDAISM AND THE NEW JUDEA: Herzl; Saadyah; Schechter; Noah; Hertz; Eichholz |
| [ III.] | THE TESTIMONY OF THE NATIONS |
| [◆] | WORLD’S DEBT TO ISRAEL: Abbott; Cornill |
| [◆] | ISRAEL AND HIS REVELATION: Arnold |
| [◆] | ISRAEL, GREECE, AND ROME: Renan; Wagner; Lotze |
| [◆] | WHAT IS A JEW? Tolstoy |
| [◆] | THE BOOK OF THE AGES: Harnack; Scott; Whitman |
| [◆] | THE BIBLE, THE EPIC OF THE WORLD: Frazer; Stevenson; Froude |
| [◆] | THE BIBLE IN EDUCATION: Huxley; Goethe |
| [◆] | THE BIBLE AND DEMOCRACY: Wyclif; Huxley; Nietzsche |
| [◆] | THE HEBREW LANGUAGE: Renan |
| [◆] | REBECCA’S HYMN: Scott |
| [◆] | MOSES: George |
| [◆] | THE BURIAL OF MOSES: Alexander |
| [◆] | ISRAEL’S PSALTER: Dow; Rhys; Cornill |
| [◆] | THE PSALMS IN HUMAN LIFE: Prothero |
| [◆] | THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT ON HIGH: Addison |
| [◆] | O GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST: Watts |
| [◆] | THE LIVING POWER OF THE JEWISH PROPHETS: Jowett; Froude |
| [◆] | THE BOOK OF JONAH: Cornill; Goethe |
| [◆] | JOB: Carlyle; Froude |
| [◆] | ECCLESIASTES: Ellis |
| [◆] | THE BOOK OF ESTHER: Stanley; Whittier |
| [◆] | THE TALMUD: Robinson |
| [◆] | THE HUMANITY OF JEWISH WISDOM: Gorky |
| [◆] | THE PHARISEES: Huxley; Box; Herford |
| [◆] | THE JEWISH PRAYER BOOK: Biddle |
| [◆] | IN A SYNAGOGUE: Eliot |
| [◆] | THE TORCH OF JEWISH LEARNING: Beaulieu |
| [◆] | DURING THE CRUSADES: Strindberg |
| [◆] | THE EXPULSION FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL: Lecky |
| [◆] | A PROTEST AGAINST THE AUTO-DA-FÉ OF SEPTEMBER 20, 1761, LISBON: Voltaire |
| [◆] | THE BIBLE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND: Green |
| [◆] | FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS: Macaulay |
| [◆] | IGNORANCE OF JUDAISM: Eliot; Blake |
| [◆] | ‘THEY ARE OUR ELDERS’: Beaulieu |
| [◆] | THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT: Longfellow |
| [◆] | THE JEW AS A CITIZEN: Roosevelt |
| [◆] | IN THE EAST END OF LONDON: Schreiner |
| [◆] | THE RUSSIAN AGONY: Milyukov; Lecky; Tolstoy; Schreiner |
| [◆] | THE BLOOD LIBEL—BRITISH PROTEST |
| [◆] | JEWISH NATIONALISM: Eliot; Sykes |
| [◆] | A JEWISH NATIONAL HOME: Balfour |
| [◆] | ISRAEL’S PRESERVATION: St. Jerome |
| [◆] | ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS: Twain |
| [ IV.] | THE VOICE OF PRAYER: THE JEWISH YEAR |
| [◆] | ON PRAYER AND PRAISE: Philo; Zohar |
| [◆] | ON MORNING SERVICE: Shulchan Aruch |
| [◆] | AT THE DAWN I SEEK THEE: Gabirol |
| [◆] | MORNING PRAYERS: Daily Prayer Book; Bachya |
| [◆] | ADON OLAM: Abrahams; Carvalho |
| [◆] | ADON OLAM AND MODERN SCIENCE: Haffkine |
| [◆] | THE SHEMA: Hertz; Zohar |
| [◆] | ‘THE SOUL THOU HAST GIVEN ME IS PURE’: Kohler |
| [◆] | THE MERIT OF THE FATHERS: Levy; Abrahams |
| [◆] | THE KADDISH: Kompert; Wisdom of Solomon; Daniel |
| [◆] | THE HOLINESS OF HOME: Jacobs; Disraeli |
| [◆] | KINDLING THE SABBATH LIGHT: Raskin |
| [◆] | LECHA DODI: Alkabetz; Achad Ha’am |
| [◆] | SABBATH PRAYER: Zohar |
| [◆] | THE SABBATH: Salaman |
| [◆] | PRAYER BEFORE THE NEW MOON: Daily Prayer Book |
| [◆] | THE SEDER: Raskin |
| [◆] | ISRAEL’S WATCH-NIGHT: Joseph |
| [◆] | PASSOVER AND FREEDOM: Hertz; Joseph |
| [◆] | ‘ADDIR HU’: Gottheil; Talmud |
| [◆] | THE FEAST OF WEEKS: Psalms |
| [◆] | A SELF-DENYING GUILD: Joseph; Daily Prayer Book |
| [◆] | AKDOMUS: Nehoraï |
| [◆] | THE BIBLE: Rosenfeld |
| [◆] | THE SEPHER TORAH: Haffkine |
| [◆] | RELIGION AND MORALITY: Daiches |
| [◆] | SYMBOLS AND CEREMONIES: Jung |
| [◆] | CUSTOM IN RELIGION: Gottheil |
| [◆] | ‘IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TIMES’: S. R. Hirsch |
| [◆] | FAITH: Singer |
| [◆] | ODE TO ZION: Halevi |
| [◆] | THE ETERNAL CITY OF THE ETERNAL PEOPLE: Hertz; Isaiah |
| [◆] | NEW YEAR: Moïse |
| [◆] | WRITTEN AND SEALED: Baalshem; Joseph |
| [◆] | THE SHOFAR: Maimonides; Deuteronomy; Psalms |
| [◆] | MY KING: Moses ben Nachman |
| [◆] | THE LORD IS KING, THE LORD WAS KING, THE LORD SHALL BE KING FOR EVER AND EVER: Kalir |
| [◆] | IF NOT HIGHER: Peretz |
| [◆] | DAY OF ATONEMENT: Gottheil; Ecclesiasticus |
| [◆] | THE MESSAGE OF YOM KIPPUR: Hertz |
| [◆] | ‘FORGIVEN’: Yomtob of York |
| [◆] | CONFESSION: Gabirol |
| [◆] | YOM KIPPUR MEDITATIONS: Bachya; Gabirol |
| [◆] | THE INFINITE MERCIES OF GOD: Exodus; Talmud |
| [◆] | BROTHERHOOD: Hertz; Ezekiel |
| [◆] | ATONEMENT PROMISE AND ADMONITION: Isaiah |
| [◆] | LORD, THINE HUMBLE SERVANTS HEAR: Yehudah |
| [◆] | GOD THAT DOEST WONDROUSLY: Mosheh |
| [◆] | TABERNACLES: Halevi |
| [◆] | PSALMS AND MYRTLES: Kalir |
| [◆] | THE HARVEST FESTIVAL: Joseph; Disraeli |
| [◆] | JOYOUS SERVICE: Abrahams; Talmud |
| [◆] | REJOICING OF THE LAW: Festival Prayer Book |
| [◆] | SIMCHAS TORAH: Gordon |
| [◆] | THE MACCABEAN WARRIORS: Maccabees |
| [◆] | THE FEAST OF LIGHTS: E. Lazarus |
| [◆] | THE MENORAH: Herzl |
| [◆] | THE STORY OF THE MACCABEES: Joseph |
| [◆] | CHANUCAH HYMN: Gottheil |
| [◆] | PURIM: Book of Esther |
| [◆] | SERVANT OF GOD: Halevi |
| [◆] | HYMN OF GLORY: Judah the Pious |
| [ V.] | THE VOICE OF WISDOM |
| [◆] | GOD, WHOM SHALL I COMPARE TO THEE! Halevi |
| [◆] | GREAT IS TRUTH: Esdras; Talmud |
| [◆] | THE RIGHT LIFE: Micah; Isaiah; Spinoza |
| [◆] | THE GOODNESS OF GOD’S WORK: Maimonides |
| [◆] | THE TWO NATURES IN MAN: Moses of Coucy |
| [◆] | FREEDOM OF THE WILL: Maimonides |
| [◆] | THE WICKED SAITH IN HIS HEART: Wisdom of Solomon |
| [◆] | REPENTANCE OF THE WICKED: Wisdom of Solomon |
| [◆] | WISE COUNSEL: Maimonides; Benedict of Oxford; Ethics of the Fathers |
| [◆] | THE DUTY OF HOLINESS: Leviticus; Kohler; Talmud |
| [◆] | THE CITY OF GOD: Philo; Maimonides; Zohar |
| [◆] | HUMILITY: Bachya; Daily Prayer Book; Ibn Ezra |
| [◆] | SAYINGS FROM THE TALMUD |
| [◆] | THE DEDICATED LIFE Philo |
| [◆] | GOD AND MAN: Ethics of the Fathers |
| [◆] | GOLDEN RULES: Leviticus; Talmud; Achaï |
| [◆] | DEEDS THE BEST COMMENDATION: Talmud; Ethics of the Fathers |
| [◆] | A MEDIAEVAL JEWISH MORALIST: Eleazar of Worms |
| [◆] | THE MYSTERY OF PAIN: S. A. Adler |
| [◆] | MEETING ADVERSITY: Hertz |
| [◆] | THE CONTEMPLATION OF DEATH: Montefiore; Ecclesiasticus |
| [◆] | LIGHT IN DARKNESS: Talmud |
| [◆] | WHENCE AND WHITHER: Ethics of the Fathers; H. Adler |
| [◆] | TIME AND ETERNITY: Yedaya Penini; Ecclesiastes; Derech Eretz Zutta |
| [◆] | TALMUDIC PARABLES AND LEGENDS |
| [◆] | ALMIGHTY, WHAT IS MAN? Gabirol |
| [◆] | RESIGNATION: Green |
| [◆] | IMMORTALITY: Talmud; Ethics of the Fathers |
| [◆] | ETERNAL HOPE: Psalms |
| [◆] | TRUE WISDOM: Job; Ethics of the Fathers |
| [NOTES] | |
| [INDEX] | OF AUTHORS AND SOURCES |
| [INDEX] | OF SUBJECTS |