This Is A Chronicle Of Dreamers, Who Have Arisen In The Ghetto From
Its Establishment In The Sixteenth Century To Its Slow Breaking-Up In
Our Own Day. Some Have Become Historic In Jewry, Others Have
Penetrated To The Ken Of The Greater World And Afforded Models To
Illustrious Artists In Letters, And But For The Exigencies Of My Theme
And The Faint Hope Of Throwing Some New Light Upon Them, I Should Not
Have Ventured To Treat Them Afresh; The Rest Are Personally Known To
Me Or Are, Like "Joseph The Dreamer," The Artistic Typification Of
Many Souls Through Which The Great Ghetto Dream Has Passed. Artistic
Truth Is For Me Literally The Highest Truth: Art May Seize The Essence
Of Persons And Movements No Less Truly, And Certainly Far More
Vitally, Than A Scientific Generalization Unifies A Chaos Of
Phenomena. Time And Space Are Only The Conditions Through Which
Spiritual Facts Straggle. Hence I Have Here And There Permitted Myself
Liberties With These Categories.
Its Establishment In The Sixteenth Century To Its Slow Breaking-Up In
Our Own Day. Some Have Become Historic In Jewry, Others Have
Penetrated To The Ken Of The Greater World And Afforded Models To
Illustrious Artists In Letters, And But For The Exigencies Of My Theme
And The Faint Hope Of Throwing Some New Light Upon Them, I Should Not
Have Ventured To Treat Them Afresh; The Rest Are Personally Known To
Me Or Are, Like "Joseph The Dreamer," The Artistic Typification Of
Many Souls Through Which The Great Ghetto Dream Has Passed. Artistic
Truth Is For Me Literally The Highest Truth: Art May Seize The Essence
Of Persons And Movements No Less Truly, And Certainly Far More
Vitally, Than A Scientific Generalization Unifies A Chaos Of
Phenomena. Time And Space Are Only The Conditions Through Which
Spiritual Facts Straggle. Hence I Have Here And There Permitted Myself
Liberties With These Categories.
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