Reminds me of a passage or two in Rory Stewart's The Places in Between, although that took place in Afghanistan in early 2002.
Monday, December 6, 2010
A Jewish boy makes an offer of protection in Hebrew in 1839.
Many 19th century Missionary narratives offer fascinating insights on Jewish life, as seen from the outside. Below is a description of an incident in Safed in 1839. A Sephardic youth makes a request, in Hebrew, of the missionary Robert Murray M'Cheyne's walking stick. He offers to use it to protect him from Arabs, "תן לי המטה הזה ואם הגוים יבוא אני אכה אותם בעץ הזה":
Reminds me of a passage or two in Rory Stewart's The Places in Between, although that took place in Afghanistan in early 2002.
Reminds me of a passage or two in Rory Stewart's The Places in Between, although that took place in Afghanistan in early 2002.
