Jews in the East - Hardcover

Frankl, Ludwig August

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0837125960 ISBN 13: 9780837125961

Publisher: Greenwood Press, 1976

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... is supported by four arches, and the windows partly open and partly provided with wooden lattices, presented the same miserable appearance. When I remarked that the eternal light was not burning in the lamp before the ark containing the law, a Rabbi said:--"You see, sir, that our light is extinguished." A beautiful tree was blooming in the court before the entrance; forty children, instead of enjoying its cool shade, were squatting close together in a dark hall and reading, or rather singing aloud from a book, while they bent their bodies backward and forward. There are five school-rooms of the same kind in Safed, where the children are taught to read prayers which they do not understand. The synagogue Zadik Rabbi Joseph differs little from those which we have just described, save that the court, in which a fig-tree and some maize have been planted, contains the white-plastered tomb of the founder. In the Bet Hamidrasch, "Maranembet Josef," which was also founded by Mr. Queda, in the year 1850, and the "Bet din," are small collections of books, but no specimens of ancient printing or manuscripts. All these have been lost during the different calamities with which Safed has been visited. All these synagogues belong to the Sepharedim; the following are the property of the Aschkenasim:--the synagogue of Rabbi Eisik is in a most neglected condition; the fragrance of the roses of red silk embroidered on the curtain of the ark is not sufficient to drown the odours of a very different description, and the two embroidered lions, supporting a crown with their claws, only served to remind us that, as the light of Israel is extinguished, so also the crown has fallen from her head. When I directed the attention of my Russian-Polish co-religionists to the indescribabl...

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0837125960
• ISBN 13: 9780837125961
• Binding: Hardcover