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... cause for anxiety - A winter in Italy Sad condition of the Italian Jews - Return to England - The Mortara Case - Abduction of a Jewish boy by the Roman Inquisition on the ground that he had been secretly baptised - The Pope refuses to ...
... cause for anxiety - A winter in Italy Sad condition of the Italian Jews - Return to England - The Mortara Case - Abduction of a Jewish boy by the Roman Inquisition on the ground that he had been secretly baptised - The Pope refuses to ...
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... cause of popular education , he was eminently fitted to be the companion of one who was destined to rank conspicuously among the philanthropists of the age . Moses Montefiore having testified a desire to adopt a Stock Exchange career ...
... cause of popular education , he was eminently fitted to be the companion of one who was destined to rank conspicuously among the philanthropists of the age . Moses Montefiore having testified a desire to adopt a Stock Exchange career ...
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... caused by the armies of the Consulate and Empire , and to pay an indemnity of 700,000,000 francs . Altogether two milliards were required , and it devolved upon the Rothschilds to negotiate loans for the settlement of this huge claim ...
... caused by the armies of the Consulate and Empire , and to pay an indemnity of 700,000,000 francs . Altogether two milliards were required , and it devolved upon the Rothschilds to negotiate loans for the settlement of this huge claim ...
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... less than five centuries . A number of Jews were barbarously drowned in the Thames , close by where London Bridge now stands . When the old bridge was in existence the fall of the waters at ebb tide caused a disturbance under one of the.
... less than five centuries . A number of Jews were barbarously drowned in the Thames , close by where London Bridge now stands . When the old bridge was in existence the fall of the waters at ebb tide caused a disturbance under one of the.
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... caused a disturbance under one of the arches ; and this , as late as eighty years ago , the Jewish gossips firmly believed was occasioned by the wrath of the Deity at the horrible crime committed there in the year 1290 . It is generally ...
... caused a disturbance under one of the arches ; and this , as late as eighty years ago , the Jewish gossips firmly believed was occasioned by the wrath of the Deity at the horrible crime committed there in the year 1290 . It is generally ...
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