Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East.

Notes

See chap. 21, "The Jews in Jewry," wherein observed traits of the Jewish population in Jerusalem are compared against the American Jewish community. According to Swift, "Native Jews in America are almost as rare as paupers of that religion. ... No Jew in America ever thinks of adopting a calling requiring him to labor with his hands. His confidence in the capacity of his brain for supplying all his wants is fortified by the traditional success of his whole people. But in Jerusalem all of the Jews, I believe without exception, who support themselves at all, do so by manual labor, skilled or unskilled" (p. 244). The author's travel impressions of Cairo and Damascus include the Jewish quarter and "Jews' bazaar."