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Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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re dur-I ng the six hot months of the year the fam-sl ly retires for the evening meal, and sleepsiflijintil the morning sun drives them below.sfi (There is an unwritten law that the Bagdadiven nay not gaze over the railing of his roof tolit lis neighbors harem; if the harems hus-jzcl >and is present the law is seldom broken.jar J With the underground serdaub providedil vith air-shafts reaching to the roof, with a stantinople; others have purchased from theSublime Porte the right to plunder the prov-ince. Half of its hundred thousand inhab-itants are Arabs and Persian Moslems; theother fifty thousand, with the exception ofa few Chaldaeans and Armenians, are Jews,the descendants of the Hebrews who wereexiled from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.The Bagdad Jew is the poorest specimen ofhis race, and all of the tricky qualities whichare supposed to be Jewish are combinedand exaggerated in him. He no longerwears the yellow turban, nor is he required,as in the time of the Califs, to dismount
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The ancient minaret, the loftiest tower in Bagdad, one of the few monuments dating from the time of the Califs

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