Articles in Capitals; Notes in Roman Type. ADLER: THE LATE CHIEF RABBI, DR. N. M. ADLER. By ... ... ... ... Esop: An Unknown Hebrew Version of the Sayings of Esop. By Prof. "Bestemm." By Prof. D. KAUFMANN BOSWELL: A JEWISH BOSWELL. By S. SCHECHTER ... 37 369 533 ... ... THE CHILD IN JEWISH LITERATURE. By S. SCHECHTER CRITICAL NOTICES. DEMBITZER'S "KLILATH JOFI" DRIVER'S "THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL KUENEN'S INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT : Eugenius IV: Pope Eugenius IV. on the Jews. By Dr. A. NEUBAUER A UNITARIAN MINISTER'S VIEW OF THE TALMUDIC DOC- TRINE OF GOD. By the Rev. R. TRAVERS HERFORD. .. IDEALS: JEWISH IDEALS. By JOSEPH JACOBS MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN. By I. ABRAHAMS Masnuth: Samuel Masnuth. By Dr. A. NEUBAUER (See also Berechiah Naqdan.) Meir: Rabbi Meir and "Cleopatra." By Prof. W. BACHER. Merton College: Shtars in Merton College. By Dr. A. NEUBAUER 526 ... 322 330 ... 188 ... NASSI: DON JOSEPH NASSI. By Prof. D. KAUFMANN New Volume of the work Talmud Torah. By Dr. A. NEUBAUER... Persecutions: Fragment of an Account of Persecutions. ... Plagiarism: A Recent Case of Plagiarism. By S. SCHECHTER Sambary and Benjamin of Tudela. By I. ABRAHAMS SEPTUAGINT: ARE THERE TRACES OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN THE SEPTUAGINT? By Prof. J. FREUDENTHAL TALMUD: Burning the Talmud in 1322. By Prof. H. GRAETZ Translation of the Talmud in England in 1568? JEWISH TAX-GATHERERS IN THEBES. By Prof. THEBES ... ... ... ... ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME II. The Jewish Quarterly Review. OCTOBER, 1889. THE CHILD IN JEWISH LITERATURE. "I SAW a Jewish lady only yesterday with a child at her knee, and from whose face towards the child there shone a sweetness so angelical that it seemed to form a sort of glory round both. I protest I could have knelt before her, too, and adored in her the divine beneficence in endowing us with the material storgé which began with our race and sanctifies the history of mankind." These words, which are taken from Thackeray's "Pendennis," may serve as a starting-point for this paper. The fact that the great student of man perceived this glory just round the head of a Jewish lady rouses in me the hope that the small student of letters may, with a little search, be able to discover in the remains of our past, many similar traces of this divine beneficence and sanctifying sentiment. Certainly the glimpses which we shall catch from the faded leaves of ancient volumes, dating from bygone times, will not be so bright as those which the novelist was so fortunate as to catch from the face of a lady whom he saw but the previous day. The mothers and fathers, about whom I am going to speak in this paper, have gone long ago, and the objects of their anxiety and troubles have also long ago vanished. But what the subject will lose in brightness, it may perhaps gain in reality and intensity. A few moments of enraptured devotion do not make up the saint. It is a whole series of feelings and sentiments betrayed on different occasions, expressed in different ways, a whole life of sore troubles, of bitter disappointments, but also moments of most elevated joys and real happiness. A |