The Open court . than ben-Jechiel, author of the famous lexicon entitledAruch; Solomon Parchon, another lexicographer; Immanuel ofRome (1320), a famous poet; Moses Rieti (1388), the JewishDante; Messer Leon (1480), philosopher and grammarian ; IsaacNathan, author of a Hebrew concordance, etc. Shortly after the passing of the edicts in 1492 and 1497 many Historical sketch of the jews. 347 Jewish emigrants sought refuge on the northern side of the Pyre-nees, where they enjoyed many privileges. Early in the seven-teenth century Portuguese Jews were settled and flourishing in theDanish states. At
The Open court . than ben-Jechiel, author of the famous lexicon entitledAruch; Solomon Parchon, another lexicographer; Immanuel ofRome (1320), a famous poet; Moses Rieti (1388), the JewishDante; Messer Leon (1480), philosopher and grammarian ; IsaacNathan, author of a Hebrew concordance, etc. Shortly after the passing of the edicts in 1492 and 1497 many Historical sketch of the jews. 347 Jewish emigrants sought refuge on the northern side of the Pyre-nees, where they enjoyed many privileges. Early in the seven-teenth century Portuguese Jews were settled and flourishing in theDanish states. At Hamburg, which was soon honored with theappellation of Little Jerusalem, the Jews enjoyed a very greatsocial prosperity. The country, however, which has shown thegreatest favor and afforded the warmest hospitality to the exiledSpanish Jews, since the close of the sixteenth century, was thelow countries of the Netherlands. When the first Jews, or NewChristians from Spain, made their appearance in the low countries. Sacrifice of the Cock on the Eve of the Day of Atonement in Russia and Poland. there was not a vestige of those French and German Jews whosetroubles we have before related. The first indication of the re-es-tablishment of the Jews in the southern part of the United Prov-inces is found in the year 1516. At that time some refugees fromSpain petitioned Charles V. to be allowed to reside in his domin-ions. Their appeal was unheeded, and severe edicts entirely ex-cluded New Christians from Holland. And yet, notwithstandingthese edicts, many Jews were to be found in these provinces be-fore and after their separation from Spain. Their religion had longceased to be tolerated, but they practised it with the greatest se- 348 THE OPEN COURT. crecy and lived and prospered under Spanish names. At Antwerp,also, the concealed Jews were very numerous, and had establishedacademies for the study of Hebrew and Spanish literature. Mostof these Spanish and Portuguese Jewish families estab
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