Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 60189-h.htm or 60189-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60189/60189-h/60189-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60189/60189-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/fromheartofisrae00drac Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration: THE VILLAGE _Frontispiece_] FROM THE HEART OF ISRAEL Jewish Tales and Types [Illustration] by BERNARD DRACHMAN Illustrated by A. Warshawsky New York James Pott & Company 1905 Copyright, 1905 by Bernard Drachman CONTENTS. PAGE APOLOGIA PRO LIBRO SUO, v THE VILLAGE KEHILLAH, 1 Nordheim, 1 Schnorrers, 28 Gendarmes, 37 Reb Shemayah and other Nordheim Worthies, 49 THE LITTLE HORSERADISH WOMAN, 84 THE GENERAL, 95 TOO LATE, BUT ON TIME, 128 THE PROSELYTE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, 142 ISAAC AND ALICE, 168 THE SCISSORS-GRINDER, 186 THE SHLEMIHL, 211 A VICTIM OF PREJUDICE, 244 THE RABBI’S GAME OF CARDS, 268 GLOSSARY OF HEBREW AND OTHER NON-ENGLISH TERMS 291 APOLOGIA PRO LIBRO SUO