500 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Ei'delyi 



A MAGYAR HOME 



The pillows in the background are a familiar feature of most well-to-do homes in Hun- 

 gary. They form one of the chief items in a bride's trousseau ; babies are carried on huge 

 pillows ; a mammoth pillow is usually the sole covering at night, while two smaller pillows 

 frequently constitute the bed. 



resents the Golden Candlestick which once 

 lighted the Holy Place in the Temple at Jeru- 

 salem and which was carried directly before 

 the conqueror Titus at his triumph. The Arch 

 commemorates the conquest of Judaea in the 

 year 70 and the destruction of the Temple and 

 is contemporaneous with the first great disper- 

 sion of the Jews. Individuals had already set- 

 tled in every city of the Empire, but there had 

 been no general exodus. Now, destitute hence- 

 forth of a religious center, their world pilgrim- 

 age began. The Arch seems not so much a 



monument to a dead emperor as the perpetual 

 reminder of a scattered and deathless race. 



Sixty years after Titus, all Jerusalem was 

 plowed over and Jews were forbidden to ap- 

 proach the spot on pain of death. The very 

 name of the sacred city was proscribed, the 

 heathen colony planted on its site being called 

 iElia Capitolina. Hundreds of thousands had 

 perished in battle, massacre, and starvation. 

 A people without a capital, country, or shrine, 

 the dispersion of the survivors went on over 

 all the known world. 



