The Romance Of Palestine

Excerpt from The Romance of Palestine: A History for Young People, Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Original Photographs and Pen Pictures of the Castles, Temples, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Battle-Fields, Classic Groves, Enchanted Gardens and Great People, Which Illustrate the History, Li The eyes of the world at present are turned toward Palestine. The Emperor of Germany is now making great preparations to be present in Jeru salem during the Easter season of 1898. There is a peculiar interest felt everywhere in the development amongst the Jews of the tendency known as Zionism, which found expression recently at the Congress of Jews at Bale, Switzerland, where one wealthy Israelite offered to contribute fifty million dollars for the purchase of Palestine from the Sultan of Turkey. Wealthy in the Western world, poor and down-trodden in the East, the Jews remain a notable factor in the civilization of mankind. If, as seems probable, the Jews of the West help the Jews of the East to migrate to the home of their race, there will be accomplished one of the most startling events in history. Almost every power in Europe has some interest in Palestine, and would be immediately concerned in the migration. In these pages readers will find just the information they want regarding the conditions of the Holy Land to-day in respect to this problem. The land of the Bible remains, and is likely to remain, the most inter esting tract on the surface of the globe. Its history since Abraham moved westward from the Euphrates and settled on the uplands beside Hebron is a grand epic, touching every chord that vibrates in the human breast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"'LOVE AND WAR IN BRITISH PALESTINE' is an unusual love affair that takes place in Jerusalem in the 1930s and 40s. Tamar-Henrietta Landwehr, a Viennese Jewish refugee, falls in love with Wolfgang Schwarte, a German man born in Jerusalem's German Colony. Heavy social pressure devastates the impossible relationship between Jewish Tamar and the Christian Wolfgang, offspring of the Templer community, many of which were active Nazis and supporters of the Third Reich. Heartbroken and devastated, Wolfgang returns to Germany to pursue his studies. When the Second World War breaks, he is drafted as a commando paratrooper and finds himself dropped over Jericho to sabotage behind British lines. Tamar, who was trying to forget him, is astounded to spot him in Jerusalem in the summer of 1942, just as newspaper headlines are heralding Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrikan Korps' invasion to Palestine"--

Excerpt from Hassan a Fellah; A Romance of Palestine Shall wait till she returns, he said. My hope is as the first-fruits in harvest. My heart is lifted up for joy because of her. Surely love comes of its own accord! How can a man help it? Who shall say it nay? And he settled himself with a complacent air under the shelter of a great rock, in a position from which he could watch his sheep while they cropped the early and still meagre herbage of the hillside. Below, in the hollow of the valley, was the principal well of the village, to which the women, from long dis tances, came to draw water; for the well was noted for the abundance and purity of its supply of the precious liquid. And the words which the stalwart young shep herd had spoken to himself had reference to a childlike girl who had just tripped by, with nicely-balanced kulleh, or water-jar, on head, on her way to the ain, or fountain. The young man, Hassan, his shepherd's crook in his hand, sat partly in the shade of the rock, partly in the clear penetrating blaze of the Palestine sun, and, except that he was of unusually noble stature, was a perfect type of the native fellah or peasant. He had not quite completed his eighteenth year, and was as handsome, after his kind, as he well could be. The single scanty garment of the country, of coarse white cotton, clung here and there to him, barely saving him from the divine nudity of a Greek statue. On the right side the polished round of the shoulder protruded; and from there, downward, over the well-turned flank and thigh, to the tip of the toe, the full sweep of his contour was absolutely beyond criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.