Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East.
- Singerman ID
- supp3025
- Year
- 1868
- Entry
- Swift, John Franklin. Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., 1868. 447 p., [2] p. of adv.
- Author/Editor
- Swift, John Franklin
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Holdings
- In most academic libraries
- Title
- Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East.
- Language
- English
- Printer/Publisher
- A. Roman & Co.
- Notes
- See chap. 21, "The Jews in Jewry," wherein observed traits of the Jewish population in Jerusalem are compared against the American Jewish community. According to Swift, "Native Jews in America are almost as rare as paupers of that religion. ... No Jew in America ever thinks of adopting a calling requiring him to labor with his hands. His confidence in the capacity of his brain for supplying all his wants is fortified by the traditional success of his whole people. But in Jerusalem all of the Jews, I believe without exception, who support themselves at all, do so by manual labor, skilled or unskilled" (p. 244). The author's travel impressions of Cairo and Damascus include the Jewish quarter and "Jews' bazaar."
- Collection
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Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Part of Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East.
Swift, John Franklin, “Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East.”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 16, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/52578