Excerpt from The Celebrities of the Jews, Vol. 1 of 2: A Glance at the Historical Circumstances of the Jewish People From the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Day; 70-1290<br><br>HE History of the Jews is a wonderful story, the very uniqueness of which makes it stand apart from, and above, the history of every other nation. The Egyptians, who in the Old time were the men of wisdom and held in their hands the circle of the sciences - where are they? Once the Jews were their bond-slaves, and the monuments of Egyptian intelligence and Of Jewish industry still remain - gigantic dials Of time upon the sandy wastes of the great desert - but what is the Egyptian now? A mere instrument of taxation for foreign bond-holders.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.