Excerpt from Scrolls, Vol. 1 of 2: Essays on Jewish History and Literature, and Kimgred Subjects
This collection of essays, which were published within the last twentyfive years, in various periodicals, yearbooks, and similar works, are presented to the public as a specimen vitae humanae. Many of them I would not write today, most of them I would modify, and others, I freely admit, I wish I never had written. The uncertainty in the history of our older literature, and my appreciation of the great loss we have suffered by the absence of correct data about the authors of certain statements in rabbinical literature, make me feel the importance of collecting even the insignificant. The biographer of Charlemagne tells us of a traveling merchant, whom the brilliant emperor used in playing a trick on a greedy bishop. How important would it be to us, did we possess the letters which this man, probably living in Italy, sent to his family, during his journey. Such letters were in those days commonplace, but now they would be a valued source of historic information. Isaac of Durbalo, in the twelfth century was hardly a genius. He may not have been, even in his day a scholar of note.
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