Fourth and long: presenting (and resenting) the Sabbath.

The Jewish Quarterly Review | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

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IN 1836 JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS, who was later to achieve fame primarily for his pioneering exploration of Mayan ruins in Central America, found himself in Jerusalem for the Jewish Sabbath, where he prayed among the "feeble remnant of a mighty people" in a synagogue near Mount Zion. Since having left Europe several months earlier, the New Jersey native, who was then just over thirty, had not been anywhere "where the women sat with their faces uncovered," and so during the inscrutable Saturday morning sermon "it was not altogether unnatural" (as he later wrote in his ...

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