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We have deliberately omitted from our survey the most modern phase Of Jewish literature, which may be said to date, roughly, from the time of Moses Mendelssohn (1729 This is so essentially modern, and is divided Off by so clear a line of demarcation from the older literature, that it seemed desirable to leave it out of account. We have limited ourselves to tracing out the literary development to the close of the mediaeval period, which in the case of Jewish literature may be reckoned to have extended to the sixteenth century.