REB. SHEMAYAH AND PERLA, 49 THE LITTLE HORSERADISH WOMAN, 84 THERE IS SOMETHING COMMANDING, SOMETHING INDEFINITELY MILITARY AND AUTHORITATIVE ABOUT HIM, 96 AS THE CAVALCADE PASSED A CORNER THE GENERAL HEARD A CRY, 111 HE WAS NOTHING BUT A COMMONPLACE, EVERY-DAY PEDDLER, 131 A GROUP OF STREET-IDLERS WERE AMUSING THEMSELVES AT THE PLIGHT OF A SHORT, DARK-COMPLEXIONED MAN WHO STOOD IN THEIR MIDST, 142 NOTHING PLEASED THEM BETTER THAN A “HORSEY-BACK” RIDE, 172 THE SCISSORS-GRINDER, 186 I WAS LEFT BEHIND, GAZING OUT OF THE WINDOW AT THE FUNERAL PROCESSION, 196 THE MAN WAS A WOE-BEGONE SPECIMEN OF HUMANITY, WITH HUNGRY EYES GAZING AT YOU OUT OF A CARE-WORN, FURROWED COUNTENANCE, 212 IT’S ONLY BECAUSE YOU’RE A JEW THAT YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE, 252 THE GAME WHICH ENSUED WAS HIGHLY INTERESTING, 287 FROM THE HEART OF ISRAEL. THE VILLAGE KEHILLAH. NORDHEIM. Many persons, perhaps the majority of the readers of a certain kind of Jewish literature at present in vogue, led astray by the revival and improper application of the term Ghetto, have an idea that the great mass of the Jewish people on the continent of Europe have their habitations in filthy, noisome slums of the great cities, and that it is only in such secluded reservations, away from the contact or observation of the Gentile, that Judaism in its ancient, traditional form and pristine vigor, is or can be, maintained. In the imagination of such persons, deceived by prejudiced or sensation-seeking writers, Judaism is a feeble, pale, cellar plant which leads its anæmic existence in darkness and slime, but which withers and fades when exposed to the fresh, strong breeze and the bright, warm sun of heaven. These notions, however well they may suit the requirements of ambitious story-tellers, are incorrect both as regards the alleged facts and the inferences drawn therefrom. In the greatest part of the civilized world the Jews are not confined, whether by compulsion or choice, to particular sections of the cities, but dwell freely among their Gentile fellow-citizens everywhere; nor is the law of Moses forced to flee for refuge to darksome purlieus, where the humblest and lowliest of Judah’s strain drag out a wretched existence as unwilling neighbors of the vicious and the criminal, but finds multitudes of sincere upholders and adherents in the high places