Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Roth Cecil
Title : The jews in the defence of Britain Thirteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Year : 1940

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There is a widespread impression that, in the centuries-long interval between the fall of Jerusalem and (shall I say ?) the Balfour Declaration, the Jews entirely lost the martial qualities that had once distinguished them. Some Rabbis regarded die fact with resignation, some philo-Semites with regret (for instance Macaulay, with his stirring plea: “Let us do justice to them... Till we have done this, let us not presume to say that there is no genius among the countrymen of Isaiah, no heroism among the descendants of the Maccabees”), and some critics with obvious gloating. ...