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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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The Nonconformist . No . XL
Sketch of the History and Literature of the Spanish Jews . IN connexion with the general progress of literature , no justice has been done to the Jews ; and I have deemed it a not uninteresting object
to collect together some scattered notices of those of the Spanish Peninsula . The neglected pages of their history are adorned with many an illustrious name , and the tardy tribute of admiration has now been paid to their merits , even in the countries
whence they were driven by the malignity and the madness of untutored bigotry . In Spain and Portugal their writings have been lately made the subjects of learned and laborious criticism , and the obligations of science
to its unwearied promoters , the Jews of the middle ages , have been distinctly recognised . * The Spanish Rabbles occupy a deservedly high place in the annals of Hebrevy literature ; and their descendants , when driven from the land of their
forefathers , maintained for some time the reputation of their talents . But the sparks of superior intellect were not long preserved among the scattered embers , and the existing race ( in this country at least ) seem to have nothing to connect them with their ancestors but their language and their na m ^ s , and , perhaps , a lingering and undying love for the paternal land which they still venture to call their own . f
* Devemos aos Judeos em murta parte 08 primeiros conliecirnentos da Filosofia , da Botanica , da Medecina , da Astronomia , « da Cosmografia . A , j |© l dos Santos Litt . Port . 11 . 235 .
Fu ^ ron notables los Hebireos en letraa , JSa , doctrinas , inisterios y prodigios , ¦ ..-. ; 1 ¦'• •{ ^> Lopa de Vega * V . 341 . . a , T » ¦ - i we > for ereral centuries th $ de-^ cendaht V ^ fife $ M $ fc . ^ ( &s i < W
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Inquiry soon gets perplexed amidst the darkness of remote antiquity , and perhaps the ; fables " and traditions of uuretnembered , unrecorded days , have little to invite the historian and the sage . Whether or not we are disposed to believe ( on rabbinical
authority ) that the fleets of Solomon conveyed large bodies of Jews to Spain , * and that they then founded some of its principal cities ; t it is extremely probable that the decree of Claudius ,
which drove the Jews from Rome , and the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus , induced great numbers to settle there . J In the time of Hadrian we know that Spain was filled with their numerous colonies . §
here ) have had scarcely any intercourse with Spain , they have still preserved , and employ in many of their religious services , their original language ; and the enthusiasm with which they still think and speak of their " fatherland , " seems almost romantic . Purchas mentions , that in his time they preached throughout the Levant iu Spanish .
In the mountainous parts of Spain many Jewish families still preserve their religious rites , and in Portugal a greater number . Araijo ( the minister of the latter country ) lately caused a census to be taken of the Hebrew inhabitants of Viseu
and Braganza , and found they amounted to many thousands . During Lent ( when every Catholic is expected to attend hia parish church for confession ) thev commonly emigrate to the larger towns , that they may escape unnoticed in the greater mass of population . ? Mariana and Montano refer the
settlement of the Jews in Spain to a very remote age . Vide Basnage also , VII . ix . -f ~ Malaga , said to he so called from the Hebrew word Mo . lach as it produces an abundance of salt .
% These are said ( in the Jewish Chronicles ) to have fixed principally at Merida , Bosnqge , VII . x . 8 * § Sura liaciou que desterr 6 A&riano Lope do Vegas Gibbon ' s Deciiue and rail , xxxvu . ,
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Miscellaneous Communications.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/1/
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