Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885Magnus, Katie, Lady
History
Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885
Magnus, Katie, Lady
Jews -- History; Jews -- History -- 70-
1. The Crusades
2. Glimpses of Better Things
3. Life in France till the Expulsion thence
4. Expelled from France
5. Treatment of Jews in the German States
CHAPTER XXIV.
JEWS IN ENGLAND (1066‒1210).
1. The First Seventy Years
2. ‘Saints’ and Supplies
3. Accession of Richard
4. Treatment by Richard
5. Under John
CHAPTER XXV.
JEWS IN ENGLAND, CONTINUED (1216‒1290).
1. The Next Fifty Years
2. The Caorsini
3. The First Jewish M.P.’s
4. Another Device for raising Money
5. Under Edward I.
6. Some Ironical Legislation
7. Dishonest Jews
8. Efforts at Conversion
9. Expulsion of Jews from England
_BOOK III._
A.C. 100 TO 1500.
STARLIGHT.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CONCERNING JEWISH LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN.
1. Starlight
2. How the Stars shone
3. Piyutim
4. A Specimen Planet
CHAPTER XXVII.
SOME FIXED STARS.
1. Solomon ibn Gabirol
2. ‘Rashi’
3. Ibn Ezra
4. A Great Traveller
5. Jehudah Halevi
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE GREATEST OF THE FIXED STARS, MAIMONIDES (1135‒1204).
1. Early Days in Spain
2. Life in Exile
3. Becomes a Court Physician
4. Court and other Employment
5. His Writings
6. His Character
7. The End of his Life
CHAPTER XXIX.
DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN.
1. The Stars die out
2. Whither the Exiles went
3. Life in Germany
4. A New Crusade
5. What became of the Spanish and Portuguese Exiles
CHAPTER XXX.
THE DARKNESS VISIBLE.
1. Deterioration of Character
2. Atmospheric Conditions
3. A Shooting Star――Sabbatai Zevi
4. How the News was received
5. The Sultan interferes
6. Sabbatai resigns his Pretensions
7. Becomes a Convert to Mahomedanism
_BOOK IV._
A.C. 1591 TO 1885.
DAWN.
CHAPTER XXXI.
DAWN.
1. Beginnings of Better Days in Holland
2. The New Jerusalem
3. Sephardim and Ashkenazim
4. Spanish Jews in Holland
5. Their Acquired Intolerance
6. An Instance in Point: Uriel da Costa
CHAPTER XXXII.
MANASSEH BEN ISRAEL.
1. His Early Life
2. His Writings and his Friends
3. Manasseh finds his Vocation
4. Negotiations begun for the Return of the Jews to England
CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE RETURN OF THE JEWS TO ENGLAND.
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