The Scapegoat

1891

Hall Caine's 1891 novel, set among the Jews of Tetuan and Fez under the Moorish sultanate. Israel ben Oliel, hated as the sultan's tax gatherer, has a daughter born deaf, blind and mute, and the book turns on what her recovery costs the man who prayed for it.

Preface
Chapter I Israel Ben Oliel
Chapter II The Birth of Naomi
Chapter III The Childhood of Naomi
Chapter IV The Death of Ruth
Chapter V Ruth's Burial
Chapter VI The Spirit-Maid
Chapter VII The Angel in Israel's House
Chapter VIII The Vision of the Scapegoat
Chapter IX Israel's Journey
Chapter X The Watchword of the Mahdi
Chapter XI Israel's Home-Coming
Chapter XII The Baptism of Sound
Chapter XIII Naomi's Great Gift
Chapter XIV Israel at Shawan
Chapter XV The Meeting on the Sok
Chapter XVI Naomi's Blindness
Chapter XVII Israel's Great Resolve
Chapter XVIII The Light-Born Messenger
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI Israel in Prison
Chapter XXII How Naomi Turned Muslima
Chapter XXIII Israel's Return from Prison
Chapter XXIV The Entry of the Sultan
Chapter XXV The Coming of the Mahdi
Chapter XXVI Ali's Return to Tetuan
Chapter XXVII The Fall of Ben Aboo
Chapter XXVIII “Allah-U-Kabar”