ists.--The Chassidim.

XVIII ITALIAN JEWISH POETRY 178

Immanuel and Dante.--The Machberoth.--Judah
Romano.--Kalonymos.--The Eben Bochan.--Moses
Rieti.--Messer Leon.

XIX ETHICAL LITERATURE 189

Bachya Ibn Pekuda.--Choboth ha-Lebaboth.--Sefer
ha-Chassidim.--Rokeach.--Yedaiah Bedaressi's
Bechinath Olam.--Isaac Aboab's Menorath ha-Maor.--Ibn
Chabib's "Eye of Jacob."--Zevaoth, or Ethical
Wills.--Joseph Ibn Caspi.--Solomon Alami.

XX TRAVELLERS' TALES 200

Eldad the Danite.--Benjamin of Tudela.--Petachiah
of Ratisbon.--Esthori Parchi.--Abraham
Farissol.--David Reubeni and Molcho.--Antonio de
Montesinos and Manasseh ben Israel.--Tobiah
Cohen.--Wessely.

XXI HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS 211

Order of the Tannaim and Amoraim.--Achimaaz.--Abraham
Ibn Daud.--Josippon.--Historical Elegies, or
Selichoth.--Memorial Books.--Abraham Zacuto.--Elijah
Kapsali.--Usque.--Ibn Verga.--Joseph Cohen.--David
Gans.--Gedaliah Ibn Yachya.--Azariah di Rossi.

XXII ISAAC ABARBANEL 225

Abarbanel's Philosophy and Biblical
Commentaries.--Elias Levita.--Zeena u-Reena.--Moses
Alshech.--The Biur.

XXIII THE SHULCHAN ARUCH 232

Asheri's Arba Turim.--Chiddushim and
Teshuboth.--Solomon ben Adereth.--Meir of
Rothenburg.--Sheshet and Duran.--Moses and Judah
Minz.--Jacob Weil, Israel Isserlein, Maharil.--David
Abi Zimra.--Joseph Karo.--Jair Bacharach.--Chacham
Zevi.--Jacob Emden.--Ezekiel Landau.

XXIV AMSTERDAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 243

Manasseh ben Israel.--Baruch Spinoza.--The Drama
in Hebrew.--Moses Zacut, Joseph Felix Penso, Moses
Chayim Luzzatto.

XXV MOSES MENDELSSOHN 253

Mendelssohn's German Translation of the
Bible.--Phaedo.--Jerusalem.--Lessing's Nathan the
Wise.

INDEX 263

CHAPTERS ON JEWISH LITERATURE

CHAPTER I

THE "VINEYARD" AT JAMNIA

Schools at Jamnia, Lydda, Usha, and Sepphoris.--The Tannaim