The Foreign Quarterly Review Volume 27 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...but they cannot claim the rights of citizens--nay scarcely those of men--so long as they are not Christians. Here they are openly hated as a foreign people, upon whom, as we are ashamed to kill them, we vent our barbarian courage in another way. There men play the masters over them, the gracious protectors; but take care not to emancipate them, lest by so doing tbey should lose the pleasure of playing the part of patron. Even some liberals are found who oppose the emancipation of the Jews, merely on the ground that Christians are not yet wholly free. Everywhere we find that petty pride which ridicules the Jews, tormenting them at one time with refusals, at another with half-concessions, or with obtrusive offers of instruction. We can scarcely be surprised that men of talent and education, such as have of late years arisen in considerable numbers amongst this race, should become exasperated at this despicable ill treatment. But the wrath of a Borne, the sarcasm of a Heiue, will not aid the Jewish cause, because they keep up petty antipathies, and because, under their protecting shield, a brood of common-place Jewish youths is fostered, who load with open scorn everything which is holy in the eyes of the Christian and the German." Crossing the frontiers of Poland on the side of Germany, we are struck by the sight of a curious race, distinct in every respect from the rest of the population. The flowing beards and long robes with hanging sleeves of the men, and their sharply marked features; the raven black locks and eyes of the women, their This passage is taken from the HUtory of German Literature, by Wolfgang Menzel, translated from the German, with notes, by Thomas Gordon, Oxford. The work is, however, neither a history of German literature, nor...