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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.
Israeli scholar Bennet Kravitz states that one could just as easily hate Jews for the reasons Twain gives for admiring them. In fact, Twain's essay was cited by Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. Kravitz concludes, "The flawed logic of 'Concerning the Jews' and all philo-Semitism leads to the anti-Semitic beliefs that the latter seeks to deflate". [5]
Dawson Borrer, Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds (1845): A Journey from Naples to Jerusalem, by Way of Athens, Egypt, and the Peninsula of Sinai, Including a Trip to the Valley of Fayoum, 579 pages; Barclay Johnson, Sarah (1858): Hadji in Syria: Or, Three Years in Jerusalem, 295 pages; Barclay, J. T. (1858).
Jerusalem, 1967. Image credits: ua-stena #32 Victorian Woman With A Very Intense Gaze, Circa 1850-60s. ... #67 Mark Twain Lying In His Bed At Home In 1909, He Died The Year After. Not Colorized ...
40 years earlier, Mark Twain provided an account of the scenery on the way to Jerusalem in his humorous travel book, The Innocents Abroad: We traversed some miles of desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds—a silent, mournful expanse, wherein we saw only three persons—Arabs ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Demographic history of Jerusalem by religion, based on available data [according to whom?] Christians Jews Muslims Arab and Jew at Arab bazaar, Old City of Jerusalem Jewish Orthodox children in Jerusalem Jerusalem's population size and composition has shifted many times over its 5,000 year history ...