Jewish Perseverance, Or, the Jew at Home and Abroad; An Autobiography (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.1851 Excerpt: ... JEWISH PERSEVERANCE. CHAPTER I.: nsaa T(c);-ft 7T?T2"-, ? na isn "Q-bs-wsb ijiq "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it."--Prov. xxii. 6. Among the manifold created beings which people this globe, man stands aloft singled out as it were to give soul and meaning to all around him, and to pursue an end to which all other productions seem but subservient means. For this great purpose, the Creator of the universe has, in His unerring wisdom, graciously fitted his favourite, and has set him so much over the rest of the animal creation that he is, indeed, only "a little lower than the angels." It is one of the great distinctions of man, that he is essentially a reflecting being. The brute lives and works without consciousness. The ox that is yoked to the plough plods along the gleby furrows without considering that he is employed to prepare food for hundreds. But man can feel in his heart what his hands are doing. At every act of his life, at every occurrence in his days, he can stand still to reflect, to derive lessons, and to B teach them to others. In this respect the life of an individual, however humble that individual be, may become a source of information for his fellow-beings; and it is with such a view that I have penned the following outline of my career. I was born in the town of Shwerin-on-the-Wartha, in the grand duchy of Posen, on the 24th of May, 1814. My father, a corn merchant, who had been trained in, and ever scrupulously adhered to, the principles of orthodox Judaism, had earned his fortune by the indefatigable labour of his hands; and it was his most anxious desire that his children should imbibe, as early as the mind was capable of receiving any lasting impression, those maxims of immut.