Chapter II
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DAYS OF TRANSITION
1648-1794
(pp. 53-109)
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Footnote 1: (return) JE, s.v. Bratzlav.Note 2 · Footnote 2: (return) In the diary of a Polish squire we find the following item: "Jan. 5. As the lessee Herszka had not yet paid me the rentNote 3 · Footnote 3: (return) See Wolkonsky, Pictures of Russian History and Literature, Boston, 1897, p. 136.Note 4 · Footnote 4: (return) Orshansky, in Yevreyskaya Biblyotyeka, ii. 207.Note 5 · Footnote 5: (return) Meassef, St. Petersburg, 1902, p. 195; Beck and Brann, Yevreyskaya Istoriya, p. 326; JE, iv. 155; xi. 113.Note 6 · Footnote 7: (return) FKN, pp. 126-132; Voskhod, 1893; on the Hasidim and Mitnaggedim see below.Note 7 · Footnote 8: (return) Ma'aseh Tobiah, p. 18; Meassef, pp. 206-209; Geiger (Melo Hofnayim, Berlin, 1840, pp. 1-29) published Delmedigo's corroNote 8 · Footnote 9: (return) Rapoport, Etan ha-'Ezrahi, Ostrog, 1776, Introduction.Note 9 · Footnote 10: (return) Cf. Zederbaum, Keter Kehunnah, pp. 72-74, 84, 121, etc., and Ha-Shiloah, xxi. 165; Schechter, Studies in Judaism, i., Note 10 · Footnote 11: (return) Among the many wonderful episodes in the life of the master, his biographer mentions also that he could swallow down tNote 11 · Footnote 12: (return) Ha-Boker Or, iv. 103-105: [Hebrew: H'fkormot Mn Nshmot M'lh Hngon.]Note 12 · Footnote 13: (return) Cf. Emden, op. cit., p. 185, and Shimush, Amsterdam, 1785, pp. 78-80, with Pardes, ii. 204-214.Note 13 · Footnote 14: (return) See Schechter, op. cit., pp. 73-93; Silber, Elijah Gaon, 1906; Levin, 'Aliyat Eliyahu, Vilna, 1856, and FKN, pp. 133-1Note 14 · Footnote 15: (return) Levin, op. cit., pp. 28-30.Note 15 · Footnote 16: (return) See Ha-Bikkurim, i. 1-26; ii. 1-20; Ha-Zeman (monthly), 1903, ii. 6; Plungian, Ben Porat, Vilna, 1858, p. 33; Keneset Note 16 · Footnote 17: (return) Sirkes (Bayit Hadash, Cracow, 1631, p. 40) decides that Jews may employ in their synagogue melodies used in the churchNote 17 · Footnote 18: (return) See J.S. Raisin, Sect, Creed and Custom in Judaism, Philadelphia, 1907, p. 9, and ch. viii.; Ha-Meliz, x. 186, 192-194Note 18 · Footnote 19: (return) See Ha-Zeman (monthly), 1903, ii. 7.; Shklov, Euclidus, Introduction; Keneset Yisraël, 1887, and Hagra on Orah Hayyim,Note 19 · Footnote 20: (return) See Graetz, op. cit, xi. 590, 604, 606. The Gaon, who as a rule was very mild, lost patience with the Hasidim and wielNote 20 · Footnote 21: (return) See Karpeles, Time of Mendelssohn, p. 297; Kayserling, Mendelssohn, p. 12; Ha-Meliz, 1900, nos. 194-196.Note 21 · Footnote 22: (return) Epstein, Geburat ha-Ari, Vilna, 1870, p. 29; Rabinovich, Zunz, Warsaw, 1896; Wessely, op. cit., ii.; Linda, Reshit LimNote 22 · Footnote 23: (return) Delitzsch, Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Poesie, Leipsic, 1836, p. 118; Bernfeld, Dor Tahapukot, Warsaw, 1897, pp. 88 fNote 23 · Footnote 24: (return) Published in Berlin in 1793. It was translated into English by Murray (Solomon Maimon, Boston, 1888) and into Hebrew bNote 24 · Footnote 25: (return) Bernfeld, op. cit., ii. 66 f. JE, s.v. Maimon; and Autobiography (Engl. transl.), p. 217. For Maimon's system of philoNote 25 · Footnote 26: (return) Wolff, Maimoniana, Berlin, 1813, p. 177.Note 26 · Footnote 27: (return) How touching and suggestive is the word [Hebrew: Shbi] in an acrostic at the end of his Introduction to his Gibe'at haNote 27 · Footnote 28: (return) See Murray's Introduction to the Autobiography; Auerbach, Dichter und Kaufmann; Zangwill, Nathan the Wise and Solomon Note 28 · Footnote 29: (return) FKI, p. 196.Note 29 · Footnote 30: (return) Maggid, Toledot Mishpehot Ginzberg, pp. 52-53; Emden, Sheëlat Ya'abez, Altona, 1739, p. 65 a.Note 30 · Footnote 31: (return) FKN, pp. 109-114, 269; FKI, p. 300.Note 31 · Footnote 32: (return) FKI, p. 394; Delitzsch, op. cit, p. 84.Note 32 · Footnote 33: (return) L'univers Israélite, liii. 831-841: "C'est, vous le voyez, un juif polonais qui contribua puissamment à l'émancipationNote 33 · Footnote 34: (return) See Berliner, Festschrift, 1903, pp. 1-4.Note 34 · Footnote 35: (return) See Ha-Meliz, viii. nos. 11, 22, 23; FSL, p. 139; Monatsschrift, xxiv, 348-357.Note 35 · Footnote 36: (return) Delitzsch, op. cit., pp. 115-118; Ha-Zeman (monthly), ii. 23 f.Note 36 · Footnote 37: (return) See Meassef, 1788, p. 32, and Levin's ed. of Moreh Nebukim, Zolkiev, 1829, Introduction.Note 37 · Footnote 38: (return) Ha-Meassef, 1809, pp. 68-75, 136-171.Note 38 · Footnote 39: (return) See Sefer ha-Berit, Introduction, and Weissberg, Aufklärungsliteratur, Vienna, 1898, p. 83.Note 39 · Footnote 40: (return) FKI, p. 428.Note 40 · Footnote 41: (return) See Emden, Torat ha-Kenaot, pp. 123-127, and Hitabkut (Pinczov's letters); Voskhod, 1882, nos. viii-ix; FSL, pp. 136-1Note 41 · Footnote 42: (return) Maimon, Autobiography, pp. 106-107; FSL, p. 135.Note 42 · Footnote 44: (return) Op. cit. Letter ii.Note 43 · Footnote 45: (return) Likkute Kadmoniot, Vilna, 1860, Introduction.