Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) WORKS OF ISRAEL ZANGWILL ESSAYS: CHOSEN PEOPLES THE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONALITIES ITALIAN FANTASIES WITHOUT PREJUDICE THE WAR FOR THE WORLD THE VOICE OF JERUSALEM NOVELS: CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO DREAMERS OF THE GHETTO GHETTO TRAGEDIES GHETTO COMEDIES THE CELIBATES’ CLUB THE GREY WIG: STORIES AND NOVELETTES THE KING OF SCHNORRERS THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH THE MASTER THE PREMIER AND THE PAINTER (WITH LOUIS COWEN) JINNY THE CARRIER PLAYS: THE MELTING POT: A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS THE NEXT RELIGION: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS PLASTER SAINTS: A HIGH COMEDY IN THREE MOVEMENTS THE WAR GOD: A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS THE COCKPIT: ROMANTIC DRAMA IN THREE ACTS THE FORCING HOUSE: TRAGI-COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS POEMS: BLIND CHILDREN _UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME_ Cloth 2/- net. Paper 1/- net. The Arthur Davis Memorial Lectures: CHOSEN PEOPLES By ISRAEL ZANGWILL _Second Impression_ With a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Sir HERBERT SAMUEL, M.A., High Commissioner of Palestine WHAT THE WORLD OWES TO THE PHARISEES By the REV. R. TRAVERS HERFORD, B.A. With a Foreword by General Sir JOHN MONASH, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.C.L. POETRY AND RELIGION By ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, M.A., D.D. Reader in Rabbinic at the University of Cambridge With a Foreword by Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, M.A., D.Litt. SPINOZA AND TIME By S. ALEXANDER, M.A., LL.D., F.B.A. Hon. Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; Professor of Philosophy in the University of Manchester With an Afterword by VISCOUNT HALDANE, O.M., F.R.S. THE STATUS OF THE JEWS IN EGYPT Being the Fifth “Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture” delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Sunday, April 30, 1922 -------------- Iyar 2, 5682 [Illustration] [Illustration: FRAGMENT OF AN ANCIENT HEBREW PAPYRUS—THE OLDEST IN THE WORLD—DISCOVERED BY PROFESSOR FLINDERS PETRIE. For translation see Appendix.] THE STATUS OF THE JEWS IN EGYPT BY W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.B.A. _Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University College_ WITH A FOREWORD BY Sir PHILIP SASSOON, Bart., M.P. LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1 _All rights reserved_ _First published in 1922_ NOTE