.. the Jews alone effected the regeneration of our
trade. They alone upheld our tottering industries .... We may safely
affirm that without them, without their characteristic mobility, we
should never have recovered our commerce and wealth" (Jastrow, op. cit.,
p. 12).]
[Footnote 2: See AZJ, April 29, 1844, and Orient, 1844, P-224, in which
the correspondent adds: "It is a touching sight to see these laborers
(as longshoremen), for the most part aged, perform their fatiguing
duties in the streets during the hottest seasons, endeavoring to lighten
their heavy burdens by the repetition of Biblical and Talmudic
passages."]
[Footnote 3: Ozar ha-Sifrut, 1877; Annalen, 1839, pp. 345-346, and 1841,
no. 31. Bikkure ha-'Ittim, 1821, pp. 168-172; FSL, p. 150; Paperna,
Ha-Derammah (Eichenbaum's letter); Ha-Boker Or, 1879, pp. 691-698;
Occident, v. 255; Pirhe Zafon, ii. 216-217; Ha-Maggid, 1863, p. 348;
Orient, 1841, p. 266; Lapin, Keset ha-Sofer, Berlin, 1857, p. 8, and
Morgulis, op. cit., p. 48.]
[Footnote 4: Jost, Culturgeschichte, pp. 308-309; Morgulis, op. cit., p.
27; Atlas, Mah Lefanim u-mah Leaher, Warsaw, 1898, pp.
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