Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to Crete.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1522
Year: 1856
Entry: Taylor, Bayard. Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to Crete. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1859. vii, 426 p.
Author/Editor: Bayard Taylor
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to Crete.
Printer/Publisher: G. P. Putnam
Language: English
Notes: Offers a few isolated observations about the Jews; for instance, at Warsaw: "Jews, with long greased locks hanging from their temples, lank, unctuous, and far- smelling figures" (p. 309). Taylor writes about Poland: "... Jews in the villages, disgusting to behold, with shocking bad hats of the stove-pipe breed, greasy love-locks hanging from their temples, and shabby black caftans reaching to their heels. These people justify the former middle age superstition that the Jew is distinguished from the Christian by a peculiar bodily odor" (p. 318).