Part 72

PROFESSOR H. GRAETZ

Vol. I. From the Earliest Period to the Death of Simon the Maccabee (135 B.C.E.).

Vol. II. From the Reign of Hyrcanus to the Completion of the Babylonian Talmud (500 C.E.).

Vol. III. From the Completion of the Babylonian Talmud to the Banishment of the Jews from England (1290 C.E.).

Vol. IV. From the Rise of the Kabbala (1270 C.E.) to the Permanent Settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C.E.).

Vol. V. In preparation.

=OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.=

Professor Graetz's History is universally accepted as a conscientious and reliable contribution to religious literature.--Philadelphia Telegraph.

Aside from his value as a historian, he makes his pages charming by all the little side-lights and illustrations which only come at the beck of genius.--Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The writer, who is considered by far the greatest of Jewish historians, is the pioneer in his field of work--history without theology or polemics.... His monumental work promises to be the standard by which all other Jewish histories are to be measured by Jews for many years to come.--Baltimore American.

Whenever the subject constrains the author to discuss the Christian religion, he is animated by a spirit not unworthy of the philosophic and high-minded hero of Lessing's "Nathan the Wise."--New York Sun.

It is an exhaustive and scholarly work, for which the student of history has reason to be devoutly thankful.... It will be welcomed also for the writer's excellent style and for the almost gossipy way in which he turns aside from the serious narrative to illumine his pages with illustrative descriptions of life and scenery.--Detroit Free Press.

One of the striking features of the compilation is its succinctness and rapidity of narrative, while at the same time necessary detail is not sacrificed.--Minneapolis Tribune.

Whatever controversies the work may awaken, of its noble scholarship there can be no question.--Richmond Dispatch.

If one desires to study the history of the Jewish people under the direction of a scholar and pleasant writer who is in sympathy with his subject because he is himself a Jew, he should resort to the volumes of Graetz.--Review of Reviews (New York).

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=THOUGHTS=

BY LIEBMAN ADLER

=OPINIONS OF THE PRESS=

Rabbi Adler was a man of strong and fertile mind, and his sermons are eminently readable.--Sunday School Times.

As one turns from sermon to sermon, he gathers a wealth of precept which, if he would practice, he would make both himself and others happier. We might quote from every page some noble utterance or sweet thought well worthy of the cherishing by either Jew or Christian.--Richmond Dispatch.

The topics discussed are in the most instances practical in their nature. All are instructive, and passages of rare eloquence are of frequent occurrence.--San Francisco Call.

The sermons are simple and careful studies, sometimes of doctrine, but more often of teaching and precept.--Chicago Times.

He combined scholarly attainment with practical experience, and these sermons cover a wide range of subject. Some of them are singularly modern in tone.--Indianapolis News.

They are modern sermons, dealing with the problems of the day, and convey the interpretation which these problems should receive in the light of the Old Testament history.--Boston Herald.

While this book is not without interest in those communities where there is no scarcity of religious teaching and influence, it cannot fail to be particularly so in those communities where there is but little Jewish teaching.--Baltimore American.

The sermons are thoughtful and earnest in tone and draw many forcible and pertinent lessons from the Old Testament records.--Syracuse Herald.