Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hutchins Hapgood '02, of New York, gave the second Semitic lecture in the Fogg Museum last night, on the Jewish Theatres of the New York Ghetio...
...Semitic Lecture. II. The Jewish Theatres of the New York Ghetto. Mr. Hutchins Hapgood, A.M., of New York. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Semitic Lecture. II. The Jewish Theatres of the New York Ghetto. Mr. Hutchins Hapgood, A.m., of New York. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Talmud is written in classical Hebrew, which is made up of four different Jewish dialects and is smattered, here and there, with borrowed words of Latin, Greek and even Persian origin. Owing to this complex structure, an intelligent study of the book is extremely difficult. Yet the time and energy spent upon the translation of the Talmud is well worth while From it, information is obtained in regard to astronomy and botany, and we see the extensive knowledge which the Jewish rabbis and philosophers must have had in regard to our more modern sciences. But by far the greatest result...
...holidays, civil laws, marriages, purity, and sacrifices in temples. This organization is intelligently arranged and is written with a peculiar terseness, which is characteristic of Hebrew literature at that time. It is this same intense religious spirit which inspired the Talmud that preserved the purity and character of the Jewish people in contrast to the other nations at that time...