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" A burning curiosity seemed all at once to have seized the whole company. "Oh, do you come from Jerusalem, the blessed city? Have you beheld with your own eyes Mount Zion, and the House of the Lord of Israel, the holy Temple? "
From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics Behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry
by Mitchell G. Bard - 2002 - 217 pages
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Outlines of Jewish History

Lady Katie Magnus, Michael Friedländer - Jews - 1890 - 432 pages
...mentioned the name of Jerusalem. As if by magic, the attitude of the most incredulous was changed. " Oh ! do you come from Jerusalem, the blessed city ? Have you beheld with your own eyes Mount Zion ? " All doubt was gone. They were never weary of asking these questions, and I must confess,' continues...
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Outlines of Jewish History: From B.C. 586 to C.E. 1890

Lady Katie Magnus - Jews - 1890 - 436 pages
...mentioned the name of Jerusalem. As if by magic, the attitude of the most incredulous was changed. " Oh ! do you come from Jerusalem, the blessed city ? Have you beheld with your own eyes Mount Zion ? " All doubt waa gone. They were never weary of asking these questions, and I must confess,' continues...
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The Holy Land in History and Thought: Papers Submitted to the International ...

Moše Šārôn - History - 1988 - 312 pages
...that their "memory of Jerusalem" had merely "a religious character".8 The name of Jerusalem which 1 had accidentally mentioned, changed as if by magic the attitude of the most incredulous [Falashas]. A burning curiosity seemed all at once to have seized the whole company. 'Oh, do you come...
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Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return

Fran Markowitz, Anders H. Stefansson - Social Science - 2004 - 226 pages
...evoked a magical power. As Joseph Halevy, the first Western Jew to have met the Falashas in 1867, wrote: The name of Jerusalem, which I had accidentally mentioned,...Jerusalem, the blessed city? Have you beheld with your eyes Mount Zion, and the House of the Lord of Israel, the holy Temple?" ... I told them that the Jewish...
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