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Our Little Jewish Cousin

<div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/cover.jpg" width-obs="528" height-obs="800" alt="Cover" /></div> <hr class="chap" />[i] <h1>Our Little Jewish Cousin</h1> <hr class="chap" />[ii] <div class='bbox'> <div class='adtitle2'>THE Little Cousin Series</div> <div class='center'>(TRADE MARK) Each volume illustrated with six or more full page plates in tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover per volume, $1.00 LIST OF TITLES By Col. F. A. Postnikov, Isaac Taylor Headland, Edward C. Butler, and Others</div> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Book titles"> <tr><td align="left">Our Little African Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Alaskan Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Arabian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Argentine Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Armenian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Australian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Austrian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Belgian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Bohemian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Boer Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Brazilian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Bulgarian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Canadian Cousin of the Maritime Provinces</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Chinese Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Cossack Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Cuban Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Czecho-Slovac Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Danish Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Dutch Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Egyptian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little English Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Eskimo Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Finnish Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little French Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little German Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Grecian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Hawaiian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Hindu Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Hungarian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Indian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Irish Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Italian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Japanese Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Jewish Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Korean Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Malayan (Brown) Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Mexican Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Norwegian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Panama Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Persian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Philippine Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Polish Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Porto Rican Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Portuguese Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Quebec Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Roumanian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Russian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Scotch Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Servian Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Siamese Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Spanish Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Swedish Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Swiss Cousin</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Our Little Turkish Cousin</td> </tr> </table></div> <div class='center'> THE PAGE COMPANY 53 Beacon Street             Boston, Mass. </div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i004.jpg" width-obs="341" height-obs="500" alt="Girl in scarf looking at sky" /> <div class="caption">ESTHER.</div> </div> <hr class="chap" />[iii] <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Title page"> <tr> <td align="center" colspan='3'><ANTIMG src="images/title_top.png" width-obs="350" height-obs="18" alt="border top" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/title_left.png" width-obs="20" height-obs="559" alt="border left" /></td> <td align="center"><h1>Our Little Jewish Cousin</h1> <div class='center'> By Mary Hazelton Wade Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman <ANTIMG src="images/emblem.png" width-obs="91" height-obs="89" alt="Emblem: Spe Labor Levis" /> Boston The Page Company PUBLISHERS</div> </td> <td align="right"><ANTIMG src="images/title_right.png" width-obs="20" height-obs="559" alt="border-right" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" colspan='3'><ANTIMG src="images/title_bottom.png" width-obs="350" height-obs="18" alt="border bottom" /> </td> </tr> </table></div> <hr class="chap" />[iv] <div class='copyright'> Copyright, 1904 By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED) All rights reserved Published September, 1904 Fourth Impression, June, 1908 Fifth Impression, March, 1910 Sixth Impression, February, 1912 Seventh Impression, April, 1914 Eighth Impression, April, 1917 Ninth Impression, July, 1921 THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A. </div> <hr class="chap" />[v] <h2>Preface</h2> In whatever direction you may travel,—north, south, east, or west,—you will doubtless meet some of your little black-eyed Jewish cousins. They live among us here in America. They also dwell in the countries far away across the wide ocean. Why are they so scattered, you may ask. Is there no country which is really theirs, and which is ruled over by some one they have chosen? Is there not some place where they can gather together happily whenever they please? The answer is always no. They cannot say of this land or of that, "It is ours," for they are homeless. Palestine, which was once theirs, is now in the hands of the Turks. Jerusalem, the city they love best in the whole world, is in the power[vi] of those who look with scorn upon the Jewish people. For many centuries they have been scattered far and wide. Their children learn to speak the language of the country where they happen to be born. They play the games and dress in the fashion of that country. What is it that keeps them Jews? It is their religion, and their religion alone. It binds them as closely together now as it did in the days when they worshipped in the great temple at Jerusalem, two thousand years ago. These Jewish cousins would say to us, "Our people have suffered greatly. Yet they do not lose courage. Our parents tell us stories of the glorious past, over and over again. They will not let us forget it, and they teach us to hope for the time when Jerusalem will again be ours, and a new temple, in which we shall be free to worship, will stand upon the spot where the old one was destroyed." <hr class="chap" />[vii] <h2>Contents</h2> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="contents and spine"> <tr><td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/spine.jpg" width-obs="50" height-obs="500" alt="Book spine" /> </td> <td align="left"><div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> <tr><td align="left" colspan='2'>CHAPTER</td> <td align="left">PAGE</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">I.</td> <td align="left">The Place of Wailing</td> <td align='right'>1</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">II.</td> <td align="left">The Gazelle</td> <td align='right'>17</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">III.</td> <td align="left">The Feast of the Passover</td> <td align='right'>33</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">IV.</td> <td align="left">The Orphan</td> <td align='right'>42</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">V.</td> <td align="left">The Jews of Long Ago</td> <td align='right'>49</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">VI.</td> <td align="left">Queer Sights</td> <td align='right'>57</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">VII.</td> <td align="left">The Cave</td> <td align='right'>67</td> </tr> <tr><td align="right">VIII.</td> <td align="left">The Sweet Singer of Israel</td> <td align='right'>76</td> </tr> </table></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <hr class="chap" />[viii] [ix] <h2>List of Illustrations</h2> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="List of illustrations"> <tr><td align="left"> </td> <td align="left">PAGE</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Esther</td> <td align="left">Frontispiece</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">"It was a dark, dreary court with stone walls on three sides of it"</td> <td align='right'>4</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">Levi and His Camel</td> <td align='right'>26</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">A Woman of Bethlehem</td> <td align='right'>60</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">A Street in Jerusalem</td> <td align='right'>62</td> </tr> <tr><td align="left">A Bedouin</td> <td align='right'>68</td> </tr> </table></div> <hr class="chap" />[x] [1] <div class='adtitle2'>Our Little Jewish Cousin</div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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