| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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