-PETERBURG.
TIPOGRAFIJA TOVARISHHESTVA "OBSHHESTVENNAJA POL'ZA",
po mojke, u kruglago rynka, N? 5.
1872.
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THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE
And
THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES
Of The Twelve Tribes of Israel
ST. PETERSBURG
Printed by the Association "Obschestvenaya Polza"
On the Moika, at the Round Market, No. 5
1872
[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF THE FOREWORD TO THE STORY PUBLISHED IN 1872,
SHOWING THAT THE AUTHOR REGARDED IT AS A "LEGENDARY STORY," COLORED BY
THE AUTHOR'S "FANTASTIC IMAGINATION."]
[Transliteration:
PREDISLOVIE.
Opisanie evrejskago kladbishha v Prage i legendarnyj
razskaz o sobranii predstavitelej dvenadcati
izrail'skih kolen zaimstvovany iz istoriko-politicheskago
romana Sera Dzhona Redkliffa "Do Sedana",
pomeshhennago v zhurnale, izdavaemom Nikolaem
Stepanovichem L'vovym.
Soderzhanie legendy ne est' vymysel odnogo Redkliffa;
skoree Redkliff, s svojstvennym emu fantasticheskim
voobrazheniem, sobral chasti v odno
celoe i okrasil vse poeticheskimi kraskami, porazhajushhimi,
mozhet byt', chrezmernoju jarkostiju, no
tem ne menee predstavljajushhimi interes.
* * * * *
Dozvoleno cenzuroju, S.-Peterburg, 17-go maja 1872 goda.
]
_(Translation)_
FOREWORD
"The description of the Jewish cemetery in Prague and the legendary
story of the meeting of the representatives of the twelve tribes of
Israel are borrowed from the historico-political novel by Sir John
Radcliff, 'To Sedan,' published in the magazine edited by Nicholas
Stepanovitch Lvoff.
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