Hearken! Can we not distinguish in its notes, as they fill our ears, the presage of a music of the future, of love and good-will? We seem to hear the rustle of the young leaves of a new spring, the resurrection foretold thousands of years agone by our poets and prophets. We see slowly dawning that great day on which mankind, awakened from the fitful sleep of error and delusion, will unite in the profession of the creed of brotherly love, and Israel's song will be mankind's song, myriads of voices in unison sending aloft to the skies the psalm of praise: Hallelujah, Hallelujah! INDEX Aaron, medical writer, 79 Abbahu, Haggadist, 21 Abbayu, rabbi, quoted, 232-233 Abina, rabbi, 19 Abitur, poet, 24 Aboab, Isaac, writer, 45, 130 Aboab, Samuel, Bible scholar, 45 Abrabanel, Isaac, scholar and statesman, 42, 99 Abrabanel, Judah, 42, 95 Abraham in Africa, 255 Abraham Bedersi, poet, 171 Abraham ben Chiya, scientist, 83, 93 Abraham ben David Portaleone, musician, 376 Abraham de Balmes, physician, 95 Abraham deï Mansi, Talmudist, 116 Abraham ibn Daud, philosopher, 35 Abraham ibn Ezra, exegete, 36 mathematician, 83 Abraham ibn Sahl, poet, 34, 88 Abraham Judæus. See Abraham ibn Ezra Abraham of Sarteano, poet, 224 Abraham Portaleone, archæolegist, 45, 97 Abraham Powdermaker, legend of, 285-286 Abt and Mendelssohn, 314 Abyssinia, the Ten Tribes in, 262-263 Ackermann, Rachel, novelist, 119 Acosta, Uriel, alluded to, 100 _Acta Esther et Achashverosh_, drama, 244 Actors, Jewish, 232, 246, 247-248 Adia, poet, 24 Adiabene, Jews settle in, 251 Æsop's fables translated into Hebrew, 34 "A few words to the Jews by one of themselves," by Charlotte Montefiore, 133 Afghanistan, the Ten Tribes in, 259 Africa, interest in, 249-250 in the Old Testament, 255 the Talmud on, 254 the Ten Tribes in, 262 Agau spoken by the Falashas, 265 Aguilar, Grace, author, 134-137 testimonial to, 136-137 "Ahasverus," farce, 244 Ahaz, king, alluded to, 250 Akiba ben Joseph, rabbi, 19, 58 quoted, 253, 256 Albert of Prussia, alluded to, 288 Albertus Magnus and Maimonides, 156, 164 philosopher, 82 proscribes the Talmud, 85 Albo, Joseph, philosopher, 42 Al-Chazari, by Yehuda Halevi, 31 commentary on, 298 Alemanno, Jochanan, Kabbalist, 95 Alessandro Farnese, alluded to, 98 Alexander III, pope, and Jewish diplomats, 99 Alexander the Great, 229, 254 Alexandria, centre of Jewish life, 17 philosophy in, 75 Alfonsine Tables compiled, 92 Alfonso V of Portugal and Isaac Abrabanel, 99 Alfonso X, of Castile, patron of Jewish scholars, 92, 93 Alfonso XI, of Castile, 170, 260 Alityros, actor, 232 Alkabez, Solomon, poet, 43 _Alliance Israélite Universelle_, and the Falashas, 264 "Almagest" by Ptolemy translated, 79 read by Maimonides, 159 _Almansor_ by Heine, 347 Almohades and Maimonides, 148 _Altweiberdeutsch._ See _Judendeutsch_ Amatus Lusitanus, physician, 42, 97 Amharic spoken by the Falashas, 265