PREFACE. THE Author of The Home and the Synagogue of the Modern Jew has had peculiarly favourable opportunities for becoming accurately acquainted with the customs and ritual of the Jewish Church of the present day. These customs he has related in the style of an eye-witness; though for several of the facts now laid before the reader, he has been indebted to the observations of others. In all cases, however, his information has been drawn from sources that can be fully relied upon. Nothing has been narrated but what has been observed by the Author, or by those who have kindly afforded him the various particulars. The Illustrations (many of them after designs by Solomon) have been carefully prepared under the superintendence of the Author; and are, he believes, the most perfect series now extant that have attempted to portray Hebrew rites and ceremonies. |