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History of the Jews, Vol. IV (of VI)
Author: Heinrich Graetz
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America
Published: 1894
Source: Project Gutenberg

From the Rise of the Kabbala (1270 C. E.) to the Permanent Settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C. E.)

It is the heartfelt aspiration of the author that this historical work, in its English garb, may attain its object by putting an end to the hostile bearing against the Jewish race, so that it may no longer be begrudged the peculiar sphere whereto it has been predestined through the events and sorrows of thousands of years, and that it may be permitted to fulfil its appointed mission without molestation.

(from the foreword)