Collection: William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection - Prints and Photographs / Date: 1900 - Lowcountry Digital Library Catalog Search Search Results

31. [Dohány Street Synagogue, Budapest]

Date:: 1900 and 1999
Description:: Black-and-white photograph of the exterior of the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest.

32. Fire against fire; or, how an amateur hypnotist came to grief

Date:: 1900
Description:: Caricature by Franklin Morris Howarth published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Isaacs: "Ikey, look, look! See vat your fader learns out mit dis pook! I can do it! I'm a hypnotister!" 2 "Now watch! Here gomes a jay gustomer. Go out mit der store. Leaf me alone. I will hypnotister him. I vill get me double brices! 3 --"Vat, you only vant a pair of pants? Look me in der eye!" --Mr. Hardacre (aside): "That feller is tryin' ter hypnertize me. I used ter be purty good at that game, myself. I'll try my hand at it." 4 --Mr. Isaacs (aside): "Oh! If I had only known dese dricks pefore. (To Hardacre.) Look in der glass. Isn't dot fine, undt only feefty tollars." --Mr. Hardacre: "I'll let him think he has me!" 5 --Mr. Isaacs: "And you vant a fine silk hat. Ah! you look schoost like dot Brince of Vales (Aside.) Oh! dis vas too easy!" --Mr. Hardacre (aside): "Now I'm ready to begin on him." 6 (Making the hypnotic passes : immediately transfixing Isaacs and handing him a piece of paper). "Now you want your money, I suppose? Here is a hundred-dollar-bill. Give me the change." 7 --"Yes, that is right! Ten, twenty, thirty, forty. Now, you sit down on that chair and don't move until that clock strikes five. Good-by!" 8 --Young Isaacs: "Fader, vat's der matter? You see nodding mit your eyes open. Vhere's der gustomer you hypnertisted? Vake up! Vake up!" 9 --Mr. Isaacs (as he awakes): "Vhat! Dere vas no hundret-tollar-bill in der drawer? Four ten-tollar-bills missin'? Oh, mein sufferin' peoble! Dot feller was a hypnotister himself! Ikey, Ikey! purn dot pook!"

33. [Isaac M. Wise Temple, 8th & Plum Streets. Cincinnati, OH]

Date:: 1900 and 1949
Description:: Black-and-white photograph of the exterior of the Plum Street Temple, now the Isaac M. Wise Temple, home of K.K. B'nai Yeshurun.

34. [The Reader]

Date:: 1900 and 1929
Description:: Black-and-white photograph of a Jewish man from North Africa. The caption on the back of the photograph reads: "There are many Orthodox Jews in North Africa, descendants of ancestors who have probably lived there since Emperor Hadrian banished the Jews from Rome."

35. Roma - Ghetto - (antica veduta)

Date:: 1900 and 1999
Description:: Black-and-white photograph of the Roman Ghetto.

36. [Chevra Bachurim Anshei Ungarn]

Date:: 1900 and 1929
Description:: Black-and-white photograph of the exterior of the synagogue of the Chevra Bachurim Anshei Ungarn in New York.