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Singerman ID#supp2294

What the World Believes: The False and the True, embracing the People of All Races and Nations, Their Peculiar Teachings, Rites, Ceremonies, Traditions, Public and Private ... from the Earliest Pagan Times to the Present, to which is added an Account of What the World Believes To-day, by Countries. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings ... A Complete Library of Ceremonial Information. ...

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Singerman ID#supp2294

Hagar, George Jotham, ed. What the World Believes: The False and the True, embracing the People of All Races and Nations, Their Peculiar Teachings, Rites, Ceremonies, Traditions, Public and Private ... from the Earliest Pagan Times to the Present, to which is added an Account of What the World Believes To-day, by Countries. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings ... A Complete Library of Ceremonial Information. ... New York: Gay Brothers & Co., [c1886]. 629, 85 p., [1] p. of adv.

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Chap. 11-15, "The Jews" (by Sabato Morais; he is credited on the title page in error as "Rev. S. Morias"). See also the 2d group, "Biographies of Important Characters Connected with Religious History. Illustrated" (on pp. 57-58, a section designated "Jews"). See p. [vii], 1st group, acknowledging the assistance of Rev. Joseph Leucht ("Hebrew Congregations") and Elias and Moritz Bella ("Hebrew Benevolent Societies and Charitable Institutions").