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Title: Make your game, or, The adventures of the stout gentleman, the slim gentleman, and the man with the iron chest : a narrative of the Rhine and thereabouts
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Ward and Lock
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ntleman on afly-leaf of the Hombourg guide-book. Judengasse. Walked about in it. Wished wewere as rich as the Jews. Met a Jew boy with asatchel—not creeping like snail unwillingly to school,but repairing thereto blithely and merrily. Jew boyslike to learn. Knowledge is power, and educationputs them in the way of making their fortune withgreater celerity. Mem.: M. Sidonia in Coningsby.He knew everything, from squaring the circle to themarket price of hundred-bladed penknives, and was,consequently, worth millions before he was twenty-one. I was a very idle boy at school; hence my pre-sent poverty. The Judengasse was in the way to theHabbinical academy where my young friend was pur-suing his studies ; and he very politely consented toofficiate as Cicerone, discoursing meanwhile in French—excellent as to quantity, but, as regards quality,execrable. At the southern extremity of the Juden-gasse there is in course of erection a magnificentsynagogue : the greater portion of the funds fur-
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TIIE JEWS SIBEET, EEA^KIOBT-ON-THE-MAINE. M.S.KE YOUR GAilE. 263 nished, I presume, by Rothschild. The famous oldfounder of the house was born in this old Judengasse,and kept a little shop iu it, selling rubbishing trinkets,for years. Street itself long and narrow, and remindsyou equally of Petticoat Lane, Holywell Street.Church Lane, St. Giless, the ; Coomb in Dublin, andthe • G-oosedubs in Glasgow. Mr. Hecht, of theJewish persuasion, keeps a Hebrew cafe and gasthausover against the synagogue. Near to that is aJVech-sels Comptoir. or money-changers shop. Curious tosee the Christian stonemasons and bricklayers slavingat the walls of the synagogue for the Jews they pro-fess to despise. Fat and florid Israelites—perhapssubscribers to the building funds—come and inspectthe progress of the works, with cigars in their mouths.and smiles on their oleaginous countenances. Great crowds in the Judengasse. There must besome large school contiguous. Mingled with therabble: saw groups of lit

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