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The Church is saved, and the cursed Jews are permitted to worship wicked woman as they please, preparatory to the eternal damnation awaiting them, when they leave this home of the flesh. A modern example although not bearing on Talmudic texts, may serve to illustrate censorial ingenuity : HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE TALMUD TEXT. JASTROW. 23 " Man is the slave of his passions. " Is there anything objectionable in this phrase to the most thin-skinned absoluist? Yet, a Russian censor discovered that... the word slave, which, in the Slavic tongues, is rendered by unfree, awakens rebellious thoughts, which it were better to put to sleep again, ere they do any mischief. And this sentence, which appeared in a little school-book of exercises for translation from Polish into Hebrew and vice versa, was changed into, " Man is the MOOR of his passions. " Perhaps the poetic censor thought of Shake- speare and his " Othello. " Imagine, if you can, the condition, under such circum- stances, of literature in general, and of Jewish literature in particular, always apt to arouse the censor's jealous suspicion ; and again the most cruelly abused of all was, and in some places still is, the Talmud.
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