The Book of Delight and Other Papers
Abrahams, Israel, 1858-1925
English
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THE BOOK OF DELIGHT
AND
OTHER PAPERS
BY
ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, M.A.
Author of "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages," "Chapters on Jewish
Literature," etc.
1912
PREFACE
The chapters of this volume were almost all spoken addresses. The author
has not now changed their character as such, for it seemed to him that to
convert them into formal essays would be to rob them of any little
attraction they may possess.
One of the addresses--that on "Medieval Wayfaring"--was originally spoken
in Hebrew, in Jerusalem. It was published, in part, in English in the
London _Jewish Chronicle_, and the author is indebted to the conductors of
that periodical for permission to include this, and other material, in the
present collection.
Some others of the chapters have been printed before, but a considerable
proportion of the volume is quite new, and even those addresses that are
reprinted are now given in a fuller and much revised text.
As several of the papers were intended for popular audiences, the author is
persuaded that it would ill accord with his original design to overload the
book with notes and references. These have been supplied only where
absolutely necessary, and a few additional notes are appended at the end of
the volume.
The author realizes that the book can have little permanent value. But as
these addresses seemed to give pleasure to those who heard them, he thought
it possible that they might provide passing entertainment also to those who
are good enough to read them.
ISRAEL ABRAHAMS
CAMBRIDGE, ENG., September, 1911
CONTENTS
I. "THE BOOK OF DELIGHT"
II. A VISIT TO HEBRON
III. THE SOLACE OF BOOKS
IV. MEDIEVAL WAYFARING
V. THE FOX'S HEART
VI. "MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN"
VII. HEBREW LOVE SONGS
VIII. A HANDFUL OF CURIOSITIES
i. George Eliot and Solomon Maimon
ii. How Milton Pronounced Hebrew
iii. The Cambridge Platonists
iv. The Anglo-Jewish Yiddish Literary Society
v. The Mystics and Saints of India
vi. Lost Purim Joys
vii. Jews and Letters
viii. The Shape of Matzoth
NOTES
INDEX
[Transcriber's Note: Index not included in this e-text edition.]
"THE BOOK OF DELIGHT"
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