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Preface v
I. Humour of the Bible 1
II. The Bible and the Ancient Classics 13
III. Art among the Ancient Hebrews 24
IV. The Life of the Hebrew Women of Old 36
V. Curiosities of certain Proper Names in the Bible 43
VI. Sketch of the Talmud 47
VII. The Humour of some Mediaeval and Modern Hebrew Writers 58
VIII. Yedaya Bedaresi, a Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Poet and
Philosopher 71
IX. Immanuel di Roma, a Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Humorist, and
a Friend of Dante 82
X. Kalonymos ben Kalonymos, a Thirteenth-Century Satirist 103
XI. Abraham Ibn Chasdai, and his Book “The Prince and the
Dervish” 117
XII. Isaac Erter, a Modern Hebrew Humorist 127
XIII. Leopold Zunz 140
XIV. Samuel David Luzzatto and Zachariah Frankel 154
XV. The Influence of Hebrew Literature on Heinrich Heine 165
XVI. Modern Hebrew Journalism 174
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