The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . ^^r. CHAPTER XI. THE BLOODY HAND IN GERMANY. In one of the old towns on the Rhine,* I went tosee a synagogue which, tradition says, Avas builtbefore the Christian era. In Roman legions servedcertain Jews, who, stationed here on the frontier ofGaul, which had just been subdued, founded a templeof their faith. I felt that the low, blackened wallsof time-defying masonry had at any rate an immenseantiquity. The blocks of stone were beaten by theweather—the thresholds nearly worn through by thepassing of feet; a deep hollow lay in a stone at theport
The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . ^^r. CHAPTER XI. THE BLOODY HAND IN GERMANY. In one of the old towns on the Rhine,* I went tosee a synagogue which, tradition says, Avas builtbefore the Christian era. In Roman legions servedcertain Jews, who, stationed here on the frontier ofGaul, which had just been subdued, founded a templeof their faith. I felt that the low, blackened wallsof time-defying masonry had at any rate an immenseantiquity. The blocks of stone were beaten by theweather—the thresholds nearly worn through by thepassing of feet; a deep hollow lay in a stone at theportal, where the multitude of generations hadtouched it with the finger in sacred the low interior my Jewish guide told me asorrowful legend, which was, no doubt, in part true,relating to a lamp burning with a double flamebefore the shrine. Once, in the old cruel days, thathatred might be excited against the Jews of the city,a dead child was secretly thrown by the Christiansinto the cellar of one of that faith. Straightway anaccusat
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