Ben Israel; Or from Under the Curse
A Jewish Play, in Five Acts
by Edward W. Tullidge
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To The Jews Of America:
Our theme and race, my Hebrew brethren, constitute the grandest of the world, and it is time that we Gentiles do you justice, for the nations owe to your people the crown of civilizations. To Egypt and Greece the world is certainly indebted, but to the Hebrew people, and the divine splendor of their subject, it owes at once the substantial basis of our present civilization and the very soul that breathes in it. Indeed, the sacred literature and exalted examples of your forefathers have very much formed the characters of modern nations. I am inclined to believe that they are indebted more to the Hebrews for their present types, than to their race origins, which give to them, in our own time, little more than their variations from each other, and the character ardor or coldness of physical temperament. The Temples of their civilization are yours. The temples of their own race-patriarchs were demolished before their historic periods commenced. Yours alone stand imperishable through the ages, grander monuments to-day even than when your ancestors were its master builders and High Priests.
The impress of the Hebrew upon modern nations (I speak of course of Europe and America,) has been best illustrated in the history of England, not only in its religion, its law and its literature, but also in its revolutions. I have only to instance the revolution of the Commonwealth, when the soul and examples of your sires inspired not only the British Parliament, but also created an army such as the world never before saw, nor has seen since, who fought in the name of the God of Israel and held a world in awe.
APA: Tullidge, Edward W. (2013). Ben Israel; Or from Under the Curse: A Jewish Play, in Five Acts. London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1875)
MLA: Tullidge, Edward W. Ben Israel; Or from Under the Curse: A Jewish Play, in Five Acts. 1875. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. Print.
|1. ben||2. chas||3. israel||4. sir||5. king|
|6. rachel||7. david||8. thee||9. jew||10. hawk|
|11. act||12. meg||13. hath||14. jews||15. walter|
|16. enter||17. levi||18. rach||19. gab||20. judah|
|21. love||22. charles||23. england||24. templar||25. jewish|