Black-and-white wood engraving depicting Simchat Torah at the Park East Synagogue in New York. Original illustration by Irving R. Wiles. From the article "The Jews in New York" by Richard Wheatley, published in the January 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting reading from the Torah at the Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York. Original illustration by Irving R. Wiles. From the article "The Jews in New York" by Richard Wheatley, published in the January 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Caricature by Emil Flohri published in Judge. The associated text reads : "The convention and fair which the federation of Jewish farmers held recently in New York, at the Educational Alliance, demonstrated that the Jew's entrance into the agricultural field has been marked by signal success. Ten years ago there were, perhaps, less than a hundred Jewish farmers scattered across the country. They produced no more than the bare rations of subsistence, living each day from hand to mouth, and trusting to the good graces of fortune for their continued support rather than to their own knowledge of the rules of farming. Today there are more than five thousand of them in the United States alone. The European figures run into tens of thousands. Each year this number increases. Men and women from the Ghettos of the big cities are beginning to appreciate the advantages of the independence of the farmer's life. They see that they can make a better living at agriculture than at their present occupations. They are combining with an increased knowledge of scientific farming a desire to succeed at this, their first productive venture."
Black-and-white engraving of the interior of the Old New Synagogue in Prague. Engraving by Josef Rybička after an original by Vincenc Morstadt. Published Prague: Karl André.
Print of a black-and-white etching of the exterior of the Hauptsynagoge (Main Synagogue) on Hans-Sachs-Platz in Nuremberg. Original etching by E. Schotte.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the exterior of the Old New Synagogue in Prague. Engraving after a drawing by Wilhelm Kandler. Published Leipzig: Kunstanstalt C. F. Merkel.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the interior of the Old New Synagogue in Prague. Engraving by Josef Rybička after an original by Wilhelm Kandler. Published by Verlag von Gottlieb Haase Söhne.
Black-and-white etching of the interior of the former 783 High Street location of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Newark. Etching signed by artist Harry S. Moskovitz.
Print reproduction of a black-and-white etching of the exterior of the Plum Street Temple, now the Isaac M. Wise Temple, home of K.K. B'nai Yeshurun. Original etching by Edward Timothy Hurley.
Hand-colored engraving of the interior of a synagogue. Engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso. From Il costume antico e moderno, o, storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni, Asia, Volume 5, by Giulio Ferrario.
Caricature by Grant E. Hamilton published in Judge. The text reads : --Ikey Ikestein loves to skate and do that backward roll, it makes such a pretty figure on ice. --We have at last found out why Silverstein is so fond of the violin. --Those long German pipes seem to be the favorite with Mr. Levy; he dotes on the one with a very crooked stem, the design is so good. --What Mr. Cohen saw when his clothing-shop burnt out. --Mr. Moses bought this piano because the foot-pedal caught his eye. --Mr. McFudd adapted the shape of his pretzels to it. --Goldberg had a bicycle built to suit his own ideas of beauty. --Mrs. Levi compliments herself on the way she trained the vines on the porch of her house.
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Simon, Sr.: "Benny Goldberg's uncle left him all his money mit der sole request dot he vould put up a tablet on his grave after he vuz dead." --Simon, Jr.: "Did he do it?" --Simon, Sr.: "Shure! He put up a 'lithia' tablet!"
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the exterior of the Semper-Synagoge (Semper Synagogue), also known as the Dresdner Synagoge (Dresden Synagogue) or Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue). Drawing and lithography by E. Müller.
Black-and-white woodcut portrait of author Sholem Aleichem. Portrait by Hayim Kalman. Published by the Farband fun Yidishe ḳulṭur-gezelshafṭn in Franḳraykh.
Black-and-white lithographed satirical portrait of financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Printed and published Prague: Haase u. Hennig. From an original by Richard Dighton.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). Frontispiece to The complete works of the learned and authentic Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus : comprising comprising the Antiquities of the Jews, a History of the Jewish wars, three dissertations concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, &c. &c. and the life of Josephus, written by himself translated by William Whiston, published London & Glasgow: J. F. Tallis.