Hand-colored engraving of the 1790 contest between boxer Daniel Mendoza and his former mentor Richard Humphries. Originally published in London on October 9, 1790, by S. W. Fores. From the 1904 edition of The reminiscences of Henry Angelo, Volume 2.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting a boy after his confirmation ceremony. From Living London : its work and its play, its humour and its pathos, its sights and its scenes, Vol. 2, by George R. Sims.
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!"
Caricature published in Judge. The text reads : --Hockstein: "Iss it a diamond? Ach! Der cutting is imberfect, der stone is off color, t'ere iss tree flaws in it--Vatt! I wouldn't loan--" --Customer (angrily): "But I don't wish a loan! I want you to value it, and I'll pay you for your trouble!" --Hockstein: "Ach! Vhy didn't you say so--it's a peaudiful stone. A pure white, flawless gem ohf der feerst vawter; feefty cents, blease!"
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Old Synagogue in Kraków. From Der Schwur des in Krakau am 9-13. August 1903, abgehalten Rabbiner-Kongresses.
Caricature by Walter H. Gallaway published in Puck. The text reads : 1 "Dey cosd only ninedy cends und sell for fife tollars." 2 "Max, I tells you ve can'd lose." 3 "Und I asks Cohenstein, 'Do ve ged a discound?'" 4 "It vas all in Rachel's name, efery cend." 5 "Now ve vill talk ofer dot brobosition you haf." 6 "Dere's noting in it at der brice."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : 1 "How our friend Goldberg's hands look when he first notices a little shower coming up." 2 "But it is only natural that they should assume this shape if it rained MONEY."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Great Synagogue in London at Duke's Place during Yom Kippur. From Living London : its work and its play, its humour and its pathos, its sights and its scenes, Vol. 2, by George R. Sims.
Black-and-white photograph of a Jewish peddler doing business in Vilnius. The back of the photograph has a note reading "Lithuania - Vilna. Typical old Jewish huckster in the streets of Vilna."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : -- Reuben (angrily): "I'll trouble you to let me by!" --Cohn brothers: "Let you buy? Certainly! Come right in! No trouble to show goots."
Print reproduction of a pen and ink drawing of the exteriors of the New Synagogue and Great Synagogue in Amsterdam. Original drawing by Ludwig Willem Reymer Wenckebach. From Oud-Amsterdam : 100 stadsgezichten.
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : The 16th of March. --Baxterstein: "Ikey, mine sohn, if ve don'dt preddy soon sell some ohf dese clodings your papa vill be a ruined Hebrew." The 17th of March. --Ikey (his son): "Nefer mindt dot ruinness, papa. Ve vill sell dose handtsome clodings to dose Irish peebles vhen der parade passes dis vay."
Sheet music for "Der Yidisher Trauer-March," by Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, published New York: Hebrew Publishing Company. On cover: Inspired by and written for the demonstration of December 5th, 1905, participated by 250,000 citizens of greater New York in tribute to the memory of the victims of Russian brutal massacres.
Color print of gravestones in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. Illustration by Adolf Kašpar. From Das Prager Ghetto by Ignát Herrmann, Joseph Teige, and Zikmund Winter, published Prague: Verlagsbuchhandlung der Böhm. Graphischen Gesellschaft "Unie".
Sheet music for "Yisrolik in sein eigen land" = "Yiśroliḳ in zayn aygen land," word by Louis Gilrod; music by Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, published New York: Hebrew Publishing Company.
Caricature by Rose Cecil O'Neill published in the October 16, 1901, edition of Puck. The text reads : --Mrs. Bernstein (getting ready for the theater): "I see dere vas a real fire-engine in dis blay." --Bernstein (sulkily): "Den I von't go." --Mrs. Bernstein: "But it eggsblodes on der vay to der fire." --Bernstein (merrily): Hurry up, dear! Ve may be too late!"
Caricatures by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The caption for "She knew him by his nose" reads : "Mr. Geldfish (who has been forced to cut his mask to make room for his nose): "I vonder eef mein wife vill know me in dis disguise? Der gostumer sedt I choost look like Heiney de Eight." The text for "Where he erred" reads : --Mrs. Cohen: "Vy are you licking leedle Shakey?" --Mr. Cohen: "He vas lighting matches out in der back yard." --Mrs. Cohen: But dere vas nodding out dere dot he could set on fire." --Mr. Cohen: "No, of course nod--dot's der reason of id. Vat's der use of dot foolish poy wasting matches?"
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Goldheim: "Didt you hear der news? Blazupski is goin' to retire from bizness for sure." --Ickleheimer: "Yes, I know aboudt it. He toldt me since der fire-insurance company refused to carry his risk dere is no money in der clothing bizness."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Mr. Cohen: "Remember, Shakey, you must be alvays ready if you aim to get rich in New York." --Jakey: "Yes, fadder. My motto in life shall be 'Ready, aim, fire!'"
Caricature by Emil Flohri published in Judge. The text reads : --Frayed Fagin: "I dreamed last night dat I found a t'ousand dollars." --Hardened Hobbs: "W'ot did yer do wid it?" --Frayed Fagin: "Chucked it away. I knew if I tried ter spend it I'd only wake up."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Mrs. Gilhooly: "Oi should t'ink it wud be awful onhandy to go t'roo loife wid sich a lar-rge nose as you hov, Missus Goldberg." --Mrs. Goldberg: " Och, I don't know, Missus Gilhooly. I vouldn't sell dot nose fer all der money in der vorldt."
Print reproduction of William Blake Richmond's painting The Song of Miriam. From The life and work of Sir William B. Richmond, R.A.K.C.B. by Helen Lascelles, published London: The Art Journal Office.
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."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Ikey Rosenbeak: "Oh, Papa, do buy me some ohf dose peaudiful Roman candles--de man says dere is tree golden balls in every one ohf dem!"