A Book of Jewish Thoughts

About this eBook

Editor

Hertz, Joseph H. (Joseph Herman), 1872-1946

Credits

E-text prepared by Richard Hulse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Jews -- Civilization

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57218

Release Date

May 27, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Richard Hulse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — A BOOK OF JEWISH THOUGHTS
2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.I I AM AN HEBREW — YE ARE MY WITNESSES — I AM AN HEBREW — THE GOOD FIGHT — EVERY ISRAELITE HOLDS THE HONOUR OF HIS ENTIRE PEOPLE IN HIS HANDS I — II — THE PATHS OF LIFE I — II — IN THE OLD GHETTO — THE JEWISH WOMAN — THE JEWISH MOTHER — YIDDISH CRADLE SONG — RELIGIOUS EDUCATION — THE SACRED TONGUE 1 — THE HEBREW LANGUAGE — WHAT IS CULTURE? — THE STUDENT OF THE TORAH 3 — BAR MITZVAH PRAYER 4 — ON THE THRESHOLD OF MANHOOD — A FATHER’S ADMONITION — WHAT MAKES A MAN A JEW? — ‘I BELIEVE’ — JUDAISM A POSITIVE RELIGION — THE MISSION OF ISRAEL — TOLERANCE I — II — OUR HERITAGE — OUR FATHERS — THE OBLIGATIONS OF HEREDITY — ZEDAKAH 9 ​—CHARITY T UR , II , § 247 — ZEDAKAH​—JUSTICE. — THE JEWISH POOR — AT ‘THE OLD PEOPLE’S REST’, JERUSALEM — SHARING THE BURDEN I — II 10 — THE DUTY OF SELF-RESPECT — ANTI-SEMITISM I — II — III — THE JEW AS A PATRIOT — THE JEWISH SOLDIER — THE JEW’S LOVE OF BRITAIN 12 — TO ENGLAND — JUDAISM AND THE JEW IN AMERICA I — II — THE DELUGE OF FIRE (1914 ‒ 1918) — THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS — THE MESSIANIC HOPE — THE VISION OF A UNITED HUMANITY — TRUST YE IN THE LORD FOR EVER
5. 5.II THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK — ISRAEL IMMORTAL — THE ETERNAL RIDDLE 13 — THE SECRET OF ISRAEL’S IMMORTALITY 14 — THE BOOK OF BOOKS — THE BIBLE 15 — A JEWISH VERSION OF THE BIBLE I — II — III — IV — V — ISRAEL THE PEOPLE OF REVELATION — THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD AND ISRAEL IS HIS PROPHET 18 — MOSES 19 — THE PROPHETS 20 I — II — THE TALMUD 21 — JEWISH LITERATURE — THE WORK OF THE RABBIS 22 — ISRAEL’S HISTORY NEVER-ENDING — THE MEANING OF JEWISH HISTORY — THE HALLOWING OF JEWISH HISTORY — ISRAEL’S MARTYRDOM — UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS — IN MEDIAEVAL ROME — THE FIRST CRUSADE (1096) 24 — THE SECOND CRUSADE — JEWISH SUFFERING — THE JEWS OF YORK (1190) — THE EXPULSION FROM SPAIN, 1492 — THE EXODUS (AUGUST 3, 1492) — A SONG OF REDEMPTION — SHYLOCK — ON THE EVE OF THE RE-SETTLEMENT IN ENGLAND — JEWISH EMANCIPATION — THE JEWISH QUESTION — THE JEWS OF ENGLAND 29 (1290 ‒ 1902) — WELCOME OF THE HEBREW CONGREGATION, NEWPORT, 30 RHODE ISLAND, U.S.A., TO GEORGE WASHINGTON — BRITISH CITIZENSHIP — THE RUSSIAN JEW 31 — YIDDISH 32 — RUSSO-JEWISH EDUCATION — PASSOVER IN OLD RUSSIA 33 — THE POGROM O CTOBER , 1905 — UNDER THE ROMANOFFS — ‘SOLDIERS OF NICHOLAS’ 34 — BONTZYE SHWEIG 35 (B ONTZYE THE S ILENT ) — THE WATCH ON THE JORDAN 36 (Z IONIST H YMN ) — THE TRAGEDY OF ASSIMILATION — THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES — PALESTINE — THE LAST CORPSES IN THE DESERT — ZIONISM — THE BRITISH DECLARATION ON PALESTINE 37 N OVEMBER 2, 1917 — A PRIL 24, 1920 — JUDAISM AND THE NEW JUDEA I — II
6. 6.III THE TESTIMONY OF THE NATIONS — WORLD’S DEBT TO ISRAEL — ISRAEL AND HIS REVELATION — ISRAEL, GREECE, AND ROME 38 — WHAT IS A JEW? — THE BOOK OF THE AGES 40 — THE BIBLE, THE EPIC OF THE WORLD 41 — THE BIBLE IN EDUCATION 42 — THE BIBLE AND DEMOCRACY — THE HEBREW LANGUAGE — REBECCA’S HYMN — MOSES 43 — THE BURIAL OF MOSES — ISRAEL’S PSALTER — THE PSALMS IN HUMAN LIFE — THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT ON HIGH (P SALM 19) — ‘O GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST’ (P SALM 90) — THE LIVING POWER OF THE JEWISH PROPHETS 44 — THE BOOK OF JONAH. — JOB — ECCLESIASTES — THE BOOK OF ESTHER 46 — THE TALMUD 47 — THE HUMANITY OF JEWISH WISDOM — THE PHARISEES 49 — THE JEWISH PRAYER BOOK — IN A SYNAGOGUE 52 — THE TORCH OF JEWISH LEARNING 53 — DURING THE CRUSADES 54 — THE EXPULSION FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, 1492 ‒ 1497 56 — A PROTEST AGAINST THE AUTO-DA-FÉ OF SEPTEMBER 20, 1761, LISBON — THE BIBLE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND 57 — FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS — IGNORANCE OF JUDAISM — THEY ARE OUR ELDERS — THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT 58 — THE JEW AS A CITIZEN — IN THE EAST END OF LONDON — THE RUSSIAN AGONY 59 I. T HE B EGINNINGS — II. I N THE N INETEENTH C ENTURY 60 — III. I N THE T WENTIETH C ENTURY — IV. T HE M ORAL — THE BLOOD LIBEL B RITISH P ROTEST , 1912 — JEWISH NATIONALISM — A JEWISH NATIONAL HOME 61 — ISRAEL’S PRESERVATION — ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS 62
7. 7.IV THE VOICE OF PRAYER (THE JEWISH YEAR) — ON PRAYER AND PRAISE — ON MORNING SERVICE — שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ AT THE DAWN I SEEK THEE — MORNING PRAYERS — ADON OLAM 63 I — II — ADON OLAM AND MODERN SCIENCE — שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל THE SHEMA — אֱלֹהָי נְשָׁמָה ‘THE SOUL THOU HAST GIVEN ME IS PURE’ — זְכוּת אָבוֹת THE ‘MERIT OF THE FATHERS’ — THE KADDISH — THE HOLINESS OF HOME — KINDLING THE SABBATH LIGHT — לְכָה דוֹדִי — SABBATH PRAYER — THE SABBATH — PRAYER BEFORE THE NEW MOON — THE SEDER 64 — לֵיל שִׁמּוּרִים ISRAEL’S WATCH-NIGHT — PASSOVER AND FREEDOM — ‘ADDIR HU’ — שָׁבֻעוֹת THE FEAST OF WEEKS — A SELF-DENYING GUILD — אַקְדָמוּת — THE BIBLE — THE SEPHER TORAH 65 — RELIGION AND MORALITY — SYMBOLS AND CEREMONIES — CUSTOM IN RELIGION — ‘IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TIMES’ — FAITH — צִיּוֹן הֲלֹא תִשְׁאֲלִי ODE TO ZION (H YMN FOR THE F AST OF A B ) — THE ETERNAL CITY OF THE ETERNAL PEOPLE — רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה NEW YEAR — WRITTEN AND SEALED — THE SHOFAR — MY KING — THE LORD IS KING, THE LORD WAS KING, THE LORD SHALL BE KING FOR EVER AND EVER 69 — IF NOT HIGHER — יוֹם כִּפּוּר DAY OF ATONEMENT — THE MESSAGE OF YOM KIPPUR — אָמְנָם כֵּן־סָלַחְתִּי ‘FORGIVEN’ 73 — תֶר מַלְכוּת CONFESSION — YOM KIPPUR MEDITATIONS I — II — THE INFINITE MERCIES OF GOD — BROTHERHOOD — ATONEMENT PROMISE AND ADMONITION I — II — LORD, THINE HUMBLE SERVANTS HEAR — אֵל נוֹרָא עֲלִילָה GOD THAT DOEST WONDROUSLY (NE’ILAH) — TABERNACLES זְמַן שִׂמְחָתֵנוּ — PALMS AND MYRTLES — THE HARVEST FESTIVAL — JOYOUS SERVICE — REJOICING OF THE LAW 75 שִׂישׂוּ וְשִׂמְחוּ — SIMCHAS TORAH — THE MACCABEAN WARRIORS — THE FEAST OF LIGHTS — THE MENORAH — THE STORY OF THE MACCABEES — CHANUCAH HYMN — PURIM 78 — SERVANT OF GOD — HYMN OF GLORY
8. 8.V THE VOICE OF WISDOM — GOD, WHOM SHALL I COMPARE TO THEE! — GREAT IS TRUTH — THE RIGHT LIFE — THE GOODNESS OF GOD’S WORK — THE TWO NATURES IN MAN — FREEDOM OF THE WILL — THE WICKED SAITH IN HIS HEART — REPENTANCE OF THE WICKED — WISE COUNSEL I — II — III — THE DUTY OF HOLINESS — THE CITY OF GOD — HUMILITY — SAYINGS FROM THE TALMUD I — II — III — IV — THE DEDICATED LIFE — GOD AND MAN — GOLDEN RULES — DEEDS THE BEST COMMENDATION — A MEDIAEVAL JEWISH MORALIST I — II — III — THE MYSTERY OF PAIN — MEETING ADVERSITY — THE CONTEMPLATION OF DEATH — LIGHT IN DARKNESS — WHENCE AND WHITHER I — II — TIME AND ETERNITY — TALMUDIC PARABLES AND LEGENDS I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX — X — XI — XII — XIII — XIV — ALMIGHTY, WHAT IS MAN? — הַצּוּר תָּמִים RESIGNATION — IMMORTALITY — ETERNAL HOPE — TRUE WISDOM
9. 9.NOTES — I — II — III — IV — V
10. 10.INDEX OF AUTHORS AND SOURCES
11. 11.INDEX OF SUBJECTS
12. 12.Footnotes.
13. 13.Transcriber’s Note.

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