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Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s induced to desist by the représenta-tions of French and Venetian envoys. Thèse datesare given by Sepp, who has also gone more fuUy thanother writers into the history of the Latin ordersestablished in Palestine, and the martyrdoms en-dured by overenthusiastic preachers to Moslems, tillorders were issued from Rome, forbidding such en-deavours. In 1808 a conflagration occurred whichdid considérable damage, but this had been repairedby September 11, 1810, at a cost of 4,000,000 ofroubles. To one who has witnessed the ceremony ofthe appearance of the Sacred Fire it is marvellousthat such conflagrations are not more fréquent. Modem Jérusalem is the product of a variety offorces which had free play in the nineteenth century,religious revivais in England and America, archaeo-logical enthusiasm in the same countries, and politi-cal ambitions on the part of various Europeannations concerned with the nearer East. To thèsethere has been added in quite récent times the force (362) T^^^—
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CAIRO, JERUSALEM, AND DAMASCUS of Zionîsm, the programme of those who regard areturn to Palestine as the natural solution of theproblem raised by anti-Semitism in the countrieswhere there are the largest Jewish congrégations.The relations between the Ottoman empire and theEuropean powers being so very différent from whatthey were when Europe was in disorder, Jérusalemhas by thèse varions forces been transformed into acentre for religions and philanthropie effort, uncon-nected to a great extent with either of the sanctuarieswhich formerly constituted its chief attraction.Curiosity attracts nearly as many visitors as aredrawn by dévotion, and the ease with which pil-grimage can be accomplished detracts somewhatfrom its merit. While the Christian and Jewishquarters are constantly expanding, the latter indeedat an enormous rate, the Moslem population showsno sign of increase, and its members, while not un-afïected by European philanthropy, appear ordi-narily incapable of emulating

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