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Singerman ID#supp1649

The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, including Anecdote, Biography & History, Curiosities of Literature, and Oddities of Human Life and Character. Numerous Illustrations.

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Singerman ID#supp1649

Chambers, Robert, ed. The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, including Anecdote, Biography & History, Curiosities of Literature, and Oddities of Human Life and Character. Numerous Illustrations. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1863-64?]. 2 vols.

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Contains scattered material of Jewish interest; e.g., "The Passover of the Modern Jews," including "Pretended Murders of Christian Children by the Jews." There is also the text of a ballad about Hugh of Lincoln (vol. 1, pp. 445-48); "The Wandering Jew" (vol. 1, pp. 534-35); "Expulsion of the Jews from England" (vol. 2, pp. 534-36).