The new number of the Jewish Quarterly Review is a
strong one, and fairly interesting to non-Jewish readers. Mr. Lionel Abrahams concludes his valuable papers on "The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290." Mr. Abrahams maintains that the expulsion had little effect upon either English or Jewish history, and notes that his compatriots "were driven from a land which thirty-five years earlier they had begged in vain to be allowed to leave," and that "the Church, which had helped to drive out the Jews, soon found itself in conflict with Christian heresy, compared with which Jewish unbelief was harmless." There is also a most enjoyable paper on that eminent Jewish scholar and writer, Leopold Kunz, by Lector I. H. Weiss. This is all the more notable because the author is eighty years of age, and is yet capable of such almost Heinesque sallies as," How many German scholars have I seen whose judgment of a man and his knowledge varies according to his society, manners, religious beliefs, and practice ! Woe to any one who appears before such critics in a long coat, and with curly Peoth over his temples. Even if the visitor should be a past master in Pilpul and wise as Daniel, he is forthwith condemned as a fool."
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