It is a most gratuitous assertion on the part of Dr. Jost, that only the impoverished Jews, and such as had to fear any punishment by reason of some transgression against the laws of the country, took refuge in that house.1 The Jewish historian has no authority for such a statement except his prejudices. There are records existing which prove the contrary.2
1 – Es scheint jedoch, dass nur arme Juden, und ♦wohl meist solche, die gesetzliche strafen zu fürchten hatten, zu diesem Hause ihre Zuflucht nahmen.—Geschichte der Israeliten, vol. vii., p. 147.
2 – See Appendix X.
♦ ‘uohl’ replaced with ‘wohl’