Grateful acknowledgement is due to the authors, translators, and publishers, for their courteous permission to reprint selections from their works; to Dayan H. M. Lazarus, M.A., and Miss Elsa Linde, for various useful suggestions; and to the Revs. J. Mann, D.Litt., S. Lipson, and I. Livingstone for help in the preparation of the Index of Subjects. J. H. H. London, 1920. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. I AM AN HEBREW YE ARE MY WITNESSES: Isaiah; Jacobs; Aguilar I AM AN HEBREW: C. Adler THE GOOD FIGHT: Eleazar of Worms EVERY ISRAELITE HOLDS THE HONOUR OF HIS ENTIRE PEOPLE IN HIS HANDS: Talmud; Montefiore THE PATHS OF LIFE: Eliezer ben Isaac; Asher ben Yechiel IN THE OLD GHETTO: Philipson; E. G. Hirsch THE JEWISH WOMAN: M. Lazarus; Hertz; Talmud THE JEWISH MOTHER: Szold; Lucas RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Cohen; Book of Morals; Morais THE SACRED TONGUE: Joseph THE HEBREW LANGUAGE: Schechter; Szold WHAT IS CULTURE? Hertz THE STUDENT OF THE TORAH: Jellinek BAR MITZVAH PRAYER: Artom ON THE THRESHOLD OF MANHOOD: Proverbs; Ethics of the Fathers A FATHER’S ADMONITION: Maimonides WHAT MAKES A MAN A JEW? Joseph ‘I BELIEVE’: Margolis JUDAISM A POSITIVE RELIGION: Schechter THE MISSION OF ISRAEL: H. Adler; Kohler TOLERANCE: Gabirol; Midrash; Crescas; Mendelssohn; Talmud OUR HERITAGE: Josephus OUR FATHERS: Ecclesiasticus THE OBLIGATIONS OF HEREDITY: Dubnow; Hertz ZEDAKAH――CHARITY: Jacob ben Asher ZEDAKAH――JUSTICE: Geiger THE JEWISH POOR: Schechter; Abrahams AT ‘THE OLD PEOPLE’S REST’, JERUSALEM: E. N. Adler SHARING THE BURDEN: Talmud; Singer THE DUTY OF SELF-RESPECT: Achad Ha’am ANTI-SEMITISM: Nordau; Schechter; Nordau; Disraeli; Hertz; Hagadah; Isaiah THE JEW AS A PATRIOT: E. Lazarus; Goldsmid THE JEWISH SOLDIER: Lucas THE JEW’S LOVE OF BRITAIN: H. Adler TO ENGLAND: Raskin JUDAISM AND THE JEW IN AMERICA: Harris; Kohut THE DELUGE OF FIRE: Hertz THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS: Joel; Isaiah; Kings; Daily Prayer Book THE MESSIANIC HOPE: Mendes; Malachi THE VISION OF A UNITED HUMANITY: Isaiah; Joseph TRUST YE IN THE LORD FOR EVER: Isaiah