CONTENTS
J. Chotzner
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Preface
v
I.
Humour of the Bible
1
II.
The Bible and the Ancient Classics
13
III.
Art among the Ancient Hebrews
24
IV.
The Life of the Hebrew Women of Old
36
V.
Curiosities of certain Proper Names in the Bible
43
VI.
Sketch of the Talmud
47
VII.
The Humour of some Mediaeval and Modern Hebrew Writers
58
VIII.
Yedaya Bedaresi, a Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Poet and Philosopher
71
IX.
Immanuel di Roma, a Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Humorist, and a Friend of Dante
82
X.
Kalonymos ben Kalonymos, a Thirteenth-Century Satirist
103
XI.
Abraham Ibn Chasdai, and his Book “The Prince and the Dervish”
117
XII.
Isaac Erter, a Modern Hebrew Humorist
127
XIII.
Leopold Zunz
140
XIV.
Samuel David Luzzatto and Zachariah Frankel
154
XV.
The Influence of Hebrew Literature on Heinrich Heine
165
XVI.
Modern Hebrew Journalism
174
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