Jeschurun · 1859-04-01 · Heft 7 (April 1859) · p. 377

S ch r e i - e 11 des Rev. vr. I. T. B arclay zu Jerusalem au Herrn Leon Dy er zu Frankfurt a. M. in Betreff der im ״Nach Jerusalem" des Dr. L. A. Frankl gegen seine jüdischen Brüder in Jerusalem verbreiteten Beschuldigungen. *) Jerusalem February 22nd 1859. My dear Sir. I had the pleasure of receiving your kind favor of Jan. 7 th. more than a week ago; but I know you will readily excuse me when I assure you that I have been prevented rnaking earlier acknowledgement by .great pressure of business and unavoidable circumstanees. Many thanks for your cordial greetings and kindremembrances. Glad indeed would I be to respönd affirmatively to your very polite Invitation; but I fear that I shall not have the pleasure of availing of it. I had hoped that the day had passed by, when any enlightened traveller could speak of Israelites as you represent a late author to have done. Certainly my convictions are very different from his. It must be confessed however, my dear friend, that altho’ the Jewish race is by all odds, the noblest 011 all the earth, there are a great many idle ones in the Holy city. That circumstance however, by no means constitutes them ״idlers“ in the ordinary acceptation of the term; for their state of nonemployment is their misfortune rather than their fault, being the result of *)Es gereicht uns zur Freude gegen jene harten und lieblosen Verdächtigungen armer Unglücklicher das Zeugniß eines Augenzeugen veröffentlichen zu können, dem man sicherlich weder Competenz noch Unparteilichkeit abzusprechen wagen wird. ann; Arvohl, dich!ung nkei! 3--! das! feit. | häft! ührt I llack bers othricht