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Hebrew Humor and Other Essays

INDEX

Reading edition

Abalzapha, 113 n.

Abrabanel, 175.

Abrahams, Isr. 63 n., 111 n.

Abram (“the exalted father”), 44.

Absalom, the monument of, 29.

Academy, the French, 146.

Achan, or Achar, 44.

Achiasaph, 179 n.

Adelaide, the wife of Leopold Zunz, 142.

Aeneid, 18, 19, 23.

Aesop, 55.

Agada, 51, 52, 54, 56, 147, 171.

Agadaists, humorous, 52.

Aix, the Jewish community of, 116.

Akiba, Rabbi, 8, 48, 49.

Albo, Joseph, 113.

Alcharizi, 59, 63, 69, 91, 122, 126, 180 n.

Alexandrian Jews, 162.

Alfabri, 80.

Alfakar, 117.

Allah, an Arabic term for the Hebrew Eloha, 33.

Amos, 7, 9.

Amphis, 5.

Anacreon, 23.

“Ancient Hebrew Poetry,” 13.

Anibert, 103 n.

Annales, 15 n.

Apion, 14.

Apostles, the, 31.

Aquinas, Thomas, 83.

Arabic language, 174.

— translations made by Jews from the, 125.

Architecture of the ancient Hebrews, 24.

Aristophanes, 3, 165.

Aristophanic punning in Hebrew, 1.

Art among the ancient Hebrews, 24.

Asaph, 30, 31.

Ashe, Rabbi, 50.

Asia Minor (Ιωνία), 15.

Assyria, King of, 18.

Astruc of Noves, 103.

Atonement, the Day of, 151.

Augustus, Emperor, 17.

Athalia, 40.

Aurora, 41.

Avignon, the Jewish community of, 104.

Baal-Zebub, 45.

Baba Bathra, 36.

Baba Kamma, 55 n.

Bachrach, Rabbi von, 152.

Bachya, 109 n., 120 n.

Balaam, 44.

Balak, 44.

Bartolocci, 71, 78, 80, 104.

Bashan, the kine of, 9.

Bechînath Olam, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 105.

Bedaresi, Abraham, 78.

Bedaresi, Yedaya, 71–81, 105.

Beiträge zur Geschichte und Literatur, 145.

Benedit, Maestro, 110.

Beneviste, Don Samuel, 110.

Ben-Jacob, 69, 70 n.

Benjamin ben Yechiel, 82,

Ben-Sira, 20.

Ben-Zeeb, 68, 69, 176.

Bernays, Jacob, 161.

Beth-aven, 8.

Beth-lehem, 45.

Bezaleel, 29.

Bible, humour of the, 1–12.

Biblical criticism, 151.

Bibliotheca Hebraica, 72, 78, 116, 141.

Bikkurey-Ha-Ittim, 129, 167.

“Birds, The,” 3.

Biur, 174.

Blumenfeld, Ignatz, 177.

Boccaccio, 90, 118, 121.

Bodenstedt, Friedrich, 149.

Boekh, 141.

Bosone da Gobbio, 85.

Bötticher, 30.

Breslau, Jewish Theological Seminary at, 161.

Bresselau, Mendel, 175.

Buxtorf, 38, 92.

Cabbala, 114.

Caleb, 38.

Calvin, 44.

Calvinus, 44.

Canaan, the land of, 11.

Canticles, 41.

Captivity, Babylonian, 29, 45.

Carlyle, Thomas, 165.

Carlyle's Life in London, 70.

Carmel, Mount, 1.

Carmoly, E., 177.

Caro, Joseph, 90.

Carrière, Dr., 142.

Cartel, Don Juda des, 110.

Casalary, Abraham, 110.

Catalogue of Hebrew MSS. at the Montefiore College Library, 68 n.

Cavalier, Don Jonah, 110.

Cervantes, 1.

Chalutz, Ha, 138, 177.

Chasdai, Abraham Ibn, 117–26.

Chassidim (“pious ones”), Gr. Ἀσιδαῖοι 128, 134.

Chess, 80.

Chiarini, Abbé, 144.

Choboth Ha-lebaboth, 109 n., 120 n.

Chotzner, J., 180 n.

Church, Gallic, 149.

Church, Roman, 47.

Cicero, 2, 15.

Cino da Pistoza, 86.

Classics, Ancient, 13.

Cohen, Shalom, 129, 176.

Collection of Sermons, 141.

Collegio Rabbinico, 154, 155, 157.

Conath, Abraham, 73.

“Confessions,” Heine's, 168.

Crescas, Don Chasdai, 110.

Crespin, Don Astruc, 110.

“Crown,” The Royal, 59.

Cupfigne, 146.

“Curiosities of Biblical Names,” 43–46.

Curiosities of Literature, 52 n.

Cyrus, 27.

Daniel, a friend of the poet Immanuel, 100.

Dante, 15, 82, 83, 85, 99, 100, 103, 126.

Dante's birthday, a Hebrew sonnet written on, 158.

D'Aquin, Ph., 73.

Darkè-Hammishnah, 161, 163.

David, King, bewails the death of King Saul, 41.

“Dawn, The,” 177.

Deborah, 33, 40, 45, 46.

Decameron, 121.

Delitzsch, Franz, 117, 150, 154, 156.

Democritus, 114.

Demosthenes, 2, 15 n.

Derenbourg, J., 143.

Deronda, Daniel, 147.

“Desert of Kedemoth, The,” 80.

“Desirable Treasure,” 176.

Deutsch, Emanuel, 50.

De Wette, 141.

Dialect, Hebrew, 175.

Dinah, 46.

Diogenes, 10.

Divan, compiled by Bedaresi, 80.

Divina Commedia, 98, 101.

Don Pedro IV, 110.

Dryden, 17 n.

Dukes, L., 60, 67, 114, 150, 156, 177.

Eben Bochan, 104, 108, 139, 110, 114.

— — by Immanuel, 87.

Ecclesiastes, 5, 22, 32.

Écrivains Juifs français du XIVe siècle, Les, 115.

Edersheim, 41.

Ehrenberg, M., 141.

Elijah on Mount Carmel, 1, 74.

Eliot, George, 147.

Elkanah, 38.

Eloha (Arabic Allah), 34.

Ensheim, Moses, 176.

Epigram, the Hebrew, 69.

Epigrammata ac Poemata varia, 69 n., 70 n.

Ersch and Gruber's Real-Encyklopädie, 98.

Erter, Isaac, 127–139.

Erubin, 20.

Esheth Chayil, 18.

Estellina Conath, 73.

L'État littéraire des Juifs dans le moyen âge, 146.

Euchel, Isaac, 175.

Euripides, 28.

Eusebius, 34.

Eve, 43, 46.

Ewald, J. L., 27.

Examen mundi, 73.

Exiles, Hebrew, 34.

Ezekiel, 10.

Ezekiel, the Book of, 173.

Ezra, “The Helper,” 45.

Falstaff, 43.

Fano, Jacob of, 78.

Faust, 5, 32.

Fergusson, James, 27.

Festivals, the Jewish, of the New Year and the Day of Atonement, 151.

Flacco, Pro, 15 n.

Fra Guittone di Arezzo, 89.

Frankel, Rabbi David, 142.

— Z., 154–65.

Frankfort, Assembly of Rabbis at, 161.

Frankl, Ludwig August, 20.

Friedländer, David, 66, 175.

Froude, 70 n.

Fürst, Julius, 91, 154, 156.

Gabirol, Solomon Ibn, 59, 74, 166, 175.

Gallic Church, 149.

Gans, D., 142.

“Gatherer,” The, 175.

Gaunt, John de, 43.

Gedaliah, 153.

Geiger, Abr., 91, 100, 104, 112, 151, 156, 177.

Geldern, Betty von, 166.

Gemara, 50.

Gemul Athalia, 176.

Gentilomo, Pavia, 157.

German Translation of the Bible, Mendelssohn's, 174.

Gerupha, 27.

Geschichte der jüd. Poesie, 117 n., 155.

Geschichte und Literatur, 145.

Ghasali, 117.

Ghetto, 176.

Ghirondi, 156.

Ginsburg, Asher, 179.

Ginsburg, Baron de, 170.

Goethe, 15, 32, 126, 149.

Goldenberg, B., 176.

Goldenthal, 117.

“Golden Tongue,” the, 79.

Goodman, Rabbi Tobias, 73.

Gordon, Juda Löb, 177.

Gorgias, 30.

“Gottesdienstliche Vorträge,” 145.

Graetz, H., 71, 72, 79, 92, 104, 112, 130.

Grammarians, Hebrew, 115.

Greeks and Romans, literary works of the, 34.

Gross, 104.

Güdemann, M., 82, 92, 143.

Habakkuk, 33.

Habib, Ibn, 80.

Hades, 156.

Haham, the post of the, 158.

Halacha, 51.

— Development of the, 162.

Halevi, Jehudah, 61, 62, 67, 122, 156, 157, 166, 179.

Halle, Aaron, 176.

Halm, 55 n.

Hamuna, Rabbi, 20.

Hannah, 46.

Harem, 40.

Hariri, 63.

Harkavy, A., 73.

“Hebrew Melodies,” 166.

Hebrew Poetry, 15.

Heine, Heinrich, 1, 62, 83, 130, 142, 152, 165–173.

“Heine über Börne,” 167 n.

Heineman's “Yedidya,” 151.

Helena, Queen, 29.

Heman, 30.

Hephaestus, 1.

Herod, King, 27.

Hesiod, 6.

Hirsch, Baron de, 139.

Hirschel, Solomon, Chief Rabbi of London, 73.

Hirschfeld, H., 68 n.

History of European Morals, 15 n.

Histoire des langues sémitiques, 70 n.

Hodegetica in Mishnam, 163.

Homer, 1, 17, 21, 40.

— Translations from, 126.

“Homilies of the Jews,” 144, 147.

Horace, 8, 15, 91, 96, 126.

Hosea, 7, 8.

Hoshana-Rabba, 148.

Huldah, 40.

Humboldt, 28, 59.

Humour of the Bible, 1–12.

— of some mediaeval and modern Hebrew writers, 58–71.

Ibn Caspi, 103 n.

Ibn Ezra, Abr., 59, 61.

— — Moses, 63, 122, 166.

Ibn-Sina, 79.

Iliad, 1, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 37.

Immanuel, 82–103, 104, 126.

Infanz, Don Solomon del, 77.

Inferno, 98, 99.

Isaac, Don Todros, 110.

Isaiah, 2, 3, 4, 5, 165.

Jabal, 4.

Jacobs, Joseph, 63 n.

Jahaziel, 31.

Jahrbuch der deutschen Dante-Gesellschaft, 87.

Jeduthun, 30.

Jehuda, Rabbi, surnamed “the prince,” 49.

Jellinek, A., 143, 152, 154, 177.

Jephthah, 30.

Jeremiah, 10, 21.

Jerome, St., 34.

“Jewish Literature,” 67 n.

Jewish Quarterly Review, The, 23 n.

Jewish Theological Seminary, 160.

Jews' College Literary Society, 63 n.

Jezebel, 40.

Joan, Queen, 110.

Job, the Book of, 18, 32.

Joel, the prophet, 14.

— Rabbi M., 161.

Jones, Sir Williams, 14.

Josephus, 14, 27, 29, 34.

Jost, J. M., 141, 142.

Journalism, modern Hebrew, 174–80.

Jubal, 40.

Jubelschrift zum 90sten Geburtstag des Dr. L. Zunz, 143.

Jüdisch-theologisches Seminar, 160.

Jüdische Zeitschrift, Geiger's, 147.

Juda Siciliano, 83.

Judaeans, the, 2.

Jupiter, 47.

Juvenal, 8 n., 15.

Kaliri, 148.

Kalonymos ben Kalonymos, 103–17.

— ben Meïr, 103.

Kantor, L., 180.

Karpeles, G., 166.

Kaufman, David, 140, 143, 148, 152.

Kayserling, M., 104.

“Kerem Chemed,” 151, 176.

Keren-happuch, 1, 2.

“Kether Malchus,” 59.

“Kiddushin” (Sanctification), 38.

Kimchi, David, 117.

“Kinnor Naïm,” 156.

Klopstock, 151.

Kobak, Joseph, 177.

“Kochbey-Yitzchak,” the, 177.

Koheleth, 5–6.

Korah, 44.

Koran, 73, 89.

Krochmal, Nachman, 128, 177.

Kunitz, M., 73.

Laban, 30.

Lacy, de, 73.

Lafontaine, 55, 118.

Lamentations, the Book of, 33, 170.

Layard, 26.

“Layesharim Téhilla,” 154.

Lebanon, 28.

Lecky, 15 n.

Legard, Professor Paul, 148.

Lehmann, Joseph, 142.

Leon, Messer, 78.

Letteratura e filosofia, 102.

Letteris, M., 129.

“Letter of Response,” 112.

Levites, 30.

Library, the Montefiore College, 68 n.

Literatur-Blatt des Orients, 67 n.

Literature, Neo-Hebrew, 67, 174, 177.

— Rabbinical, 57.

Literaturgeschichte der synagogalen Poesie, 150.

— Nachtrag zur, 147.

Liturgical Hebrew poetry, 148.

Löwe, Joel, 176.

Lowth, Bishop, 13, 14.

ludus verborum, 11.

Luther, Martin, 16, 32, 42.

Luzzato, Ephraïm, 154.

— Moses Chayim, 154.

— S. D., 80, 129, 154–65, 176.

Lyra, Nicolaus de, 16.

Lyric songs, 30, 167–69.

Maccabean army, the, 30.

Machbereth Ithiel, 91.

Machberoth, 82.

Machlon, 44.

Magid, Ha, 179, 180 n.

Magasin encyclopédique, 73.

Magnus, Albertus, 83.

Magrepha, 30.

Maimonides, 70, 80, 83, 128.

Malachi, 45.

Malaga, 59.

Manfred, 5.

Mançon, Isaac, 73.

Manna, 68, 117.

“Marriage, The Unlucky,” 63.

Martin, Sir Theodore, 169, 170.

Martinet, Professor, 156.

Martini, 31.

Massecheth Purim, 110.

Massorah, the, 162.

M'bo Ha-Yerushalmi, 163.

Méassef, the, 69.

Mechilta, 163.

Medigo, Elias des, 126.

— Joseph des, 175.

Megilla, 54.

— the, 111.

Meisels, Dr., 104.

Mekitze Nirdamim, 179.

Melitz, Ha, 180.

“Memmin, The Supplication of the,” 78.

Mémoires historiques, 103.

Menachoth, 54 n.

Mendelssohn, Bartholdy, 168.

— Moses, 73, 128, 140, 152, 174, 175.

Mendes, David Franco, 176.

Meshullam, Rabbi, 72.

“Messenger,” the, 179.

Metaphors of the Bible, the, 19.

Metre of Biblical Poems, the, 34.

Michtamim (epigrams), 67.

Midrash, 118, 145, 173.

Migdal Oz, 87, 154.

Mikdash Me'at, 90.

Milton, 15, 126.

Miriam, 39, 46.

Mishnah, the, 145.

Monatsschrift, the, 162.

Montefiore, C. G., 23 n., 169 n.

More Judaico, 160.

Morè Nebuchey Ha-Z'man, 151.

Morè Nebuchim, 80.

Moriah, Mount, 27.

Mosaïd, the, 179.

Moser, M., 142, 166.

Moses ben Chabib, Rabbi, 89.

— of Beaucaire, 102.

— the swan-song of, 11.

Munk, S., 72, 154.

Music of the ancient Hebrews, 29,30.

Nabal, 1.

“Nachtrag zur Literaturgeschichte der synagogalen Poesie,” 147, 150.

Nassi, the, 102.

Nebiim, the, 31.

Nehemia, 45.

Neubauer, A., 71, 77, 104, 115, 143.

Nineveh and Babylon, 87.

Noah, 44.

Noadiah, 40.

Odyssey, 15, 17.

“Offerings” in the Synagogue, 149.

“Oheb Ger,” 155.

Old Testament, the study of, 23.

Olympus, Mount, 1.

Onkelos, Targum, 155.

Oratio post nomina, 149.

Orient, the, 61.

Ornstein, Rabbi, 128, 133.

Othniel, 38.

“Otzer Nechmad,” 176.

Oxford University, lectures delivered at the, 13.

Palestine, 19, 30.

Palqera, Shemtob, 19, 39.

Pandora, 37.

“Paradise, the book on,” 78.

Pasquale Garofalo, Duca di Bonita, 102.

Paur, Theodor, 87, 102.

Pedro IV, Don, king of Aragon, 110.

Penini, Yedaya, 71.

“Penitential Prayers,” 147.

Pentateuch, the, 49.

“Perlen des Romancero, Die,” 152.

Petrarch, 78.

Phaino, 27.

Philip IV, 71.

— d'Aquine, 73.

Philosophisches aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, 114 n.

Phoenicians, the, 26.

“Piety and Wisdom,” 137.

Piyutim, the, 147, 148.

“Pleasant Vineyard,” The, 176.

“Pleasure of a King, The,” 80.

Poems, penitential, 147.

Poesi Hebraeorum, de Sacra, 13.

Poetry of the Ancient Hebrews, 13, 24, 32.

Pope (the poet), 17 n.

Pope, the, of Avignon, 104.

— allusions to the, 47.

“Prince and the Dervish,” the, 115–23.

Prache, Hill, 78.

Proverbia filii regis Nazari, 118 n.

Proverbs, the Book of, 5, 18, 32.

— of Ben-Sira, 32.

Psalms, the, 33, 147, 167.

“Punishment of Athalia,” 176.

Purim, the Feast of, 111.

Purgatorio, the, 98.

Quarterly Review, The, 171.

Rabbi von Bacharach, the, 152.

“Rabbinical Literature,” a study in, 143.

Rabelais, 173.

Racine, 15, 126.

Rahmer, 140.

Rapoport, S. J., 128, 129, 150, 154, 157, 159, 176, 177.

“Rebbe,” the, 134, 136, 137.

“Recreation houses,” 40.

Reformed Synagogue, the Berlin, 141.

Reggio, J. S., 156.

“Reminiscences of a Student of Jewish Theology,” 180 n.

Review, the Quarterly, 171.

Richard II, King, 43.

Richelieu, Cardinal, 73.

Richter, Jean Paul, 165.

Rieti, Moses di, 90, 126.

“Righteous Brethren,” the Treatises of the, 113.

Rittangel, 147.

“Ritual,” the Jewish, 177.

Ritus, die, 149.

Robert, King, of Naples, 102, 112, 115.

Romano, Juda, 126.

— Leone, 83.

Rossi, Azaria de, 71, 80, 151, 162.

Rückert, Friedrich, 149.

Sabbatai, Juda ben, 77.

Sachs, M., 150, 156, 166.

— Senior, 176.

Saladin, Sultan, 61.

Samaria, 8, 9.

Samson, 11, 38.

Sarah, 44.

Sanscrit, 39.

Satanow, Isr., 176.

Satirae, 15 n.

Saul, King, 25, 38.

Schachiere, il, 111.

Schiller, F. von, 15, 126, 165.

Schopenhauer, 42.

Schorr, O. H., 177.

Schubert, 168.

Schumann, 168.

Schwenter, D., 118 n.

Septuagint, the, 15, 162.

Shacar, Ha, 177.

Shakespeare, 15, 43, 126.

Shealtiel, Don Bonafoux, 110.

Sheba, Queen, 52.

Shéol, 20.

“Shield of the Mighty, The,” 78.

“Shilóach,” Ha, 179.

Shirè Shelomo, 60.

Shulchan Aruch, the, 90, 133.

Sifra and Sifri, 163.

Simonides, 6.

Sina, Ibn, 79.

Slaves, Hebrew, 15.

Slonimsky, 6, 180.

Smolensky, Peter, 177.

Socrates, 49.

Solomon, King, 52, 53, 123.

— ben Adereth, Rabbi, 79.

“Sommernacht, Die,” 151.

Sommo, Juda, 78.

“Song of Songs,” the, 13, 32, 167, 168.

“Songs of Glory,” the, 174.

Sora, Academy of, 50.

“Stars of Yitzchak,” the, 177.

Steinschneider, M., 67, 71, 91, 111, 117, 143, 177.

Stern, M. E., 91, 177.

Sterne (the poet), 1.

Storia della Musica, 31.

“Studies in the Septuagint,” 162.

“Study in Rabb. Literature,” 143.

Succah, 54 n.

“Supplication of the Memmin,” 78.

Swift, Dean, 173.

Synagogale Poesie, Die, 147, 148.

Syriac, 50, 174.

Tabernacle, the, 15, 27.

Table-Talk, Martin Luther's, 32.

Tachkemoni, 63, 67.

Tacitus, 15, 27.

Talmud, the, 34, 118, 145, 173.

— sketch of the, 47–58.

Talmudism, Jewish, 171.

Tarshish, 58.

Temple of Solomon, 25.

— the second, 39.

Thackeray, 177.

Théorie du Judaïsme, 144.

Thousand and one Nights, the, 123 n.

Tibbon family, the, 125.

Titus, 48.

Toledo, 62.

Topheth ve-Ha-Eden, Ha, 98, 101, 102.

Tosefta, the, 163.

Toulouse, the burning of the Talmud at, 109.

“Transmigration of the Soul,” 130, 133.

“Treatises of the Righteous Brethren,” 113.

Tubal, 44.

Uchtman, 73.

“Über die Weiber,” 42.

Varnhagen v. Ende, 149.

Vatican, the, 47.

Vespasian, 48.

Virgil, 18, 19, 37, 101, 126.

Voltaire, 166.

Vorstudien zu der Septuaginta, Die, 162.

Vorträge, Die gottesdienstlichen, 144.

Warburg, 142.

“Weltschmerz,” Der, 170.

Wengrow, Isaiah, 111 n.

Wessely, Hartwig, 174, 175.

Wieland's “Attisches Museum,” 40.

“Wine-song,” the, 59.

Wolf (Wolfius), 71, 80, 104, 117.

— T. A., 141.

“Yedidya,” 151.

Yitzchaki, Rabbi Solomon, commonly called “Rashi,” 144.

“Yom,” Ha, 180.

Zabara, Joseph Ibn, 121.

Zedernbaum, A., 180.

“Zefira,” Ha, 180.

“Zeitschrift der deutsch-morgenländischen Gesellschaft,” 151.

“Zicronoth,” 180.

Zion—Elegy, 62.

Ziphroni family, the, 82.

“Zophe,” Ha, 129.

Zuckermann, Dr., 161.

Zunz, Leopold, 77, 140–54, 156, 161, 177.

“Zunz-Stiftung,” 143.

Notes in this chapter

Note 3 · Cp. Juvenal, Satire 15:— “A sheep or goat they may not eat, but human flesh they may.”Note 3 · Lecky, in his History of European Morals, vol. I, p. 366, refers to a modern writer, who maintains that Homer derived the noblest conceptionNote 4 · Annales, ii. 85.Note 5 · Pro Flacco, §§ 66–70.Note 7 · Satirae, i. 4.Note 9 · Almost all the English translations of the extracts from Greek and Latin poetical writings quoted in this essay are from the renderings of PNote 13 · An interesting article on the same theme written by Mr. C. G. Montefiore appeared in the Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. III, No. 12.Note 1 · Cp. Curiosities of Literature, by I. D'Israeli: sub Solomon and Queen Sheba.Note 2 · Cp. Megilla, p. 29; Succah, p. 49; Berachoth, p. 15; also Menachoth, p. 110.Note 3 · Cp. Bab. Kam., p. 60; Aesop (Halm, 56), and also Lafontaine, I, 17.Note 4 · This translation is taken from Mr. Joseph Jacobs' article on “Jehuda Halevi,” published among the Papers read before the Jews' College LiterNote 5 · Cp. the above article by Mr. Joseph Jacobs.Note 6 · This translation from the original Hebrew was done by Mr. Israel Abrahams.Note 7 · Cp. Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 171.Note 8 · Cp. Dukes, Lit.-Blatt des Orients, p. 709.Note 12 · Cp. Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. of the Montefiore College Library, compiled by Dr. H. Hirschfeld.Note 16 · Cp. Ben-Jacob, Epigrammata ac Poemata varia, p. 104.Note 21 · Cp. Ben-Jacob, Epigrammata, &c., p. 38.Note 22 · Cp. Froude, Carlyle's Life in London, II, p. 480; and also Renan, Histoire des langues sémitiques (I, 9, 11), wherein the following curious Note 1 · Cp. Anibert, Mémoires historiques, II, 201, 397.Note 2 · Cp. Kalonymos's letter, entitled אגרת התשובה, which he addressed to Ibn Caspi, and to which reference will be made later on.Note 4 · Cp. Choboth Ha-lebaboth, by Bachya ben Joseph Ibn Bakoda, and בחינת עולם by Yedaya Bedaresi, in which a similar metaphor is used.Note 5 · One of them was Moses ben Isaiah Wengrow, author of a book called ברית משה, in which the Massecheth Purim is declared to be a most dangerousNote 6 · Cp. Steinschneider, Schach bei den Juden, Berlin, 1873. See also I. Abrahams's Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, chap. XXII, p. 388.Note 9 · According to Steinschneider (ibid.) his correct name is אבואן אלצפא.Note 11 · Cp. Dukes, Philosophisches aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, p. 21.Note 1 · Cp. Wolf, Bibl. Hebr., I, 57; Delitzsch, Geschichte der jüd. Poesie, p. 46; Steinschneider, Manna.Note 4 · The Latin translation exists as a MS. at the Nürnberg Library; it was done by Daniel Schwenter, having for its title Proverbia filii regis NNote 5 · Cp. chap. 13. A similar story is contained in Bachya's Choboth Ha-lebaboth.Note 6 · Cp. chap. 24. The same story is contained in the universally known Thousand and One Nights.Note 2 · Cp. Heine über Börne in Heine's collected works.Note 3 · The author of this translation is Mr. C. G. Montefiore.Note 2 · Several other poems by the same author hitherto unknown have recently appeared in a volume issued annually by another Hebrew literary societNote 3 · To the Magid several Jewish savants have contributed interesting articles which have a permanent literary value. In the same Hebrew weekly a
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