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Gabirol nowhere betrays his Jewishness in the "Fons Vitæ." He never quotes a Biblical verse or a Talmudic dictum. He does not make any overt attempt to reconcile his philosophical views with religious faith. The treatise is purely speculative as if religious dogma nowhere existed to block one's way or direct one's search.
I've often wanted to go." "Why don't you go?" Isaacson's mind asked that question, and his Jewishness replied. He made money in London. Every day he spent out of London was a loss of so much money. "Some day," Nigel continued, "you must take a holiday and see Egypt." "This winter?" said Isaacson. He lifted the cover of a book.
As Isaacson's mental unconventionality put him en rapport with Nigel, his Jewishness, very differently, put him en rapport with her. There is a communion of repulsion as well as a communion of affection. Isaacson knew that Mrs. Chepstow and he could be linked by their dislike. His instinct was to avoid her, not to let this link be formed.
But at least the philosophy of Maimonides confirms the inner Jewishness of the philosophy of Philo, and its essential loyalty to Jewish tradition.
Odessa was the most enlightened, because it was the wealthiest, of Jewish communities, as the benumbing poverty of the Pale was largely to blame for the unfriendly attitude towards whatever did not bear the stamp of Jewishness on its surface. The Society for the Promotion of Haskalah, too, owes its existence to some of the most prominent Russo-Jewish merchants.
I could feel those cold, cruel eyes boring straight through me. "'Certainly he is a Jew, unt one of old Rosecrans's best spies, he said. 'Old Rosecrans is a Jew, a Dutch Jew, himself. I knowed him well in the old army. He's got a regular Jew face. He plays off Catholic, but that is to hide his Jewishness. He can't do it.
'No, no, replied Mrs. Mendel reassuringly. 'I caught sight of her frying fish in the kitchen. This proof of her Jewishness passed unquestioned, and the new-born horror subsided. 'But in spite of the fish, said Mr. Mendel, 'she served in the shop while he was at synagogue. 'Yes, hissed Barzinsky; 'and in spite of the synagogue he served in the shop. A greater mockery was never known!
Never had he felt like this towards any other woman. Does not hatred contain attraction? By the light of his dislike of Mrs. Chepstow, Isaacson saw clearly why she attracted Nigel. But during those August days, in the interior combat, his Jewishness conquered his intellectual curiosity, and he did not go again to the Savoy. His holiday was spent abroad on the Lake of Como, and quite alone.
But even this would not account for the whittling away of his 'Solomon. 'S. Cohn' was the insignium over his clothing establishment. Not that he was anxious to deny his Jewishness was not the shop closed on Saturdays? he was merely anxious not to obtrude it. 'When we are in England, we are in England, he would say, with his Talmudic sing-song.
No, said he, that was not his destiny: the Jewishness of a Cantonist lay only in suffering martyrdom. But with the news of the coming war, a change came over him. He became gay as a child. One morning, when we were assembled on the drill grounds before the house of the sergeant, I was called into the house.
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