The Jews of Barnow, Tr. by M.W. Macdowall (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... peasants, whom he had formerly oppressed, rose against him in the spring of the Great Year, and put him to death. . . . "Now, my friends, this is the story of the Two Saviours of the Jews of Barnow. Let it teach you to think twice before saying who is great and who is small, who -is weak and who is mighty " THE CHILD OF ATONEMENT" "THE CHILD OF ATONEMENT. The heroine of this story is a child. Her name was Lea, and at the time of which the story treats, she was four years old. She had glossy black hair and large dark eyes. Her eyes, however, were not bright, for it seemed as if a shadow lay on her pale delicate face. She was the child of poor people, and had only one frock, which was patched all over--the same for Saturdays as for the other days of the week. It was hardly possible to distinguish the original colour of the yellow gabardine. But that was not the cause of the sadness of her expression, for what did Lea know of poverty? Every day her appetite was satisfied, or at any rate half satisfied; and every day she played in the sunshine as loDg as she liked. She had the most beautiful playground that could be desired--large, green, quiet, and full of countless flowers, and of elders bowing their blossom-laden heads over many resting-places. Lea's playground was the Jewish cemetery at Barnow. It was strange to see the serious child wandering among the graves, or sitting on a stone watching the merry cockchafers running about in the grass; but this was not the cause of the shade of sadness on her face. What did Lea know of death? She knew that her father was dead, and that death meant sleep, and never, never to be hungry more. How, then, could the daily sight of the graves have saddened her ? . . . No, it had not; and the Jews of Barnow were also wrong when the...