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This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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Excerpt from The Prayer Book: Three Lectures Delivered to the Jewish Study Society During the Winter of 1904-1905 I begin this evening a course of lectures on the Prayer Book, regarded from the historical and the religious standpoints. Such a task, I think, is likely to be of interest and value. It cannot but be useful to set the Prayer Book in its true historic perspective, to exhibit it as the outcome of a process of evolution, and to show ...

Excerpt from Judaism as Creed and Life The view of Judaism set forth in the following pages is one likely, I believe, to commend itself to a large number of English-speaking Jews. It lies midway between the orthodoxy which regards the Shulchan Aruch, or at least the Talmud, as the final authority in Judaism, and the extreme liberalism which, setting little store by the historic sentiment as a factor of the Jewish consciousness, would lightly ...

Excerpt from The Message of Judaism: Sermons Preached at the West London SynagogueThe sermons here given have necessarily been chosen from a large number of discourses. I have tried to make the selection as varied as possible, in the hope of interesting diverse readers, and of affording some justification for the title I have given to the book. I would fain hope that the following pages may not only prove helpful to some of those who are tryin...

Excerpt from Addresses to Children Between the first day of Passover and the Feast of Pentecost there are seven weeks or forty-nine days. They are called the days of the Omer. The Hebrew word Omer is the name for a certain measure of corn which was brought to the Temple as an offering on Passover in olden times. Hence the name given to these days. These days of the Omer are marked in the synagogue by a peculiar ceremony. Each day is counted a...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...