Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the Yom Kippur ritual of malkot (lashes). Published in the May 1878 edition of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Caricature by Franklin Morris Howarth published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Hockheimer: "Ach! Mein Gott, Shakop, vy you vaste your dime ofer dot foolish pook--over dot crazy fool pusiness about dot palmistry. Dot vill nefer do you no goot votefer." --Hockheimer, Jr.: "Oh! Don't vorry, Fader--it maype gomes in handy some day." 2 --Mr. Hockheimer (after trying in vain for over an hour to fit customer with hat): "Vait, don't go, mein frendt; I see vot I gan do." 3 --Mr. Hockheimer (in anguish): "Oh! Shakop, mein sohn! Dish vas awful. I loose me a gustomer. Efery hat in der store ish too pig for his head. Vot vill I do me?" --Hockheimer, Jr.: "Calm yourself, Fader. I tries vot I gan do." 4 --"Goot morning, Mister. Oh! yes; dot hat vas entirely too pig. Say! Mister, did you effer hear apout dot science of palmistry, vot dells your fortune py der lines on your handt? Gif me your handt, I tells you." 5 --"You vas porn under a lucky planet. Your line of life vas goodt undt long, you vill live to old age." 6 --"Your power for knowledge is enormously developed. You vill become a prilliant man--a scholar, a statesman, perhaps der President. You vas a porn leader of men--like Napoleon." 7 --"You have great powers of concentration and determination--you vill succeed in votefer you underdakes." 8 --"Fader, you must have made some mistakes. Any of dese hats vill fit der great schentlemans. Give me a larger size. Goot." 9 --Mr. Hockheimer (falling on his son's neck): "Oh! mein sohn, der pride of mein life. I dakes you in bartnership tomorrow."
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in the February 22, 1882, edition of Puck. The caption reads : "Puck's proposition to make the nations happy all around." Under Quotations: "England - Jews in demand." The caricature depicts Queen Victoria taking two Jews under her arms.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Central Synagogue on Great Portland Street in London, on the occasion of its consecration. Published in the May 14, 1870, edition of Harper's Weekly.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the exterior of the Hauptsynagogue (Main Synagogue) in the Börnestrasse in Frankfurt am Main. Engraving by Tanner after an original by Hoff. Published Verlag von H. Keller.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish man from Fes. Original engraving by Geroge P. Bartle after a drawing by W. H. Drake. Published in the August 1893 edition of The Century Magazine.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish woman from Tangier. After a painting by Jean-François Portaels. Published in the May 1884 edition of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish woman from Tangier. After a painting by Jean-François Portaels. Published in the October 1883 edition of Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
Black-and-white engraving depicting sacrifices at the Temple for Sukkot. Engraving by Coenraad de Putter. From Histoire universelle, depuis le commencement du monde, jusqu’à présent, Volume 7, published Amsterdam: Arkstée et Merkus, 1742-1782.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Central Synagogue on Great Portland Street in London during Yom Kippur. Published in the August 1877 edition of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Istanbuli Synagogue in Jerusalem. Published in the October 1843 edition of Le Magasin pittoresque.
Black-and-white engraving of the interior of the Istanbuli Synagogue in Jerusalem. From Palestine. Description géographique, historique, et archéologique by Salomon Munk.
Hand-colored engraved map of Palestine, with an inset map of Jerusalem. Drawn and engraved by William H. Gamble. From Mitchell's new general atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., embraced in sixty-three quarto maps, forming a series of one hundred maps and plans, together with valuable statistical tables by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, published Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr.
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.
Hand-colored engraving of two Jewish men from Austria. Engraving by William Ellis. From The costume of the hereditary states of the House of Austria by Antoine François Bertrand de Molleville, translated by Robert Charles Dallas, published London: William Miller. The publication depicts the dress of people throughout areas ruled by the House of Austria (House of Habsburg).
Hand-colored etched satirical portrait of financier and philanthropist Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. Drawn, etched, and published by Richard Dighton, August 1824. Reissue published by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1824.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a rabbi with tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries). Frontispiece to Modern Judaism : or, A brief account of the opinions, traditions, rites, and ceremonies of the Jews in modern times by John Allen, published London: Printed for T. Hamilton, and Oliphant, Waugh and Innes.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt am Main. After a drawing by E. Christiansen. Published in the November 4, 1871, edition of the Illustrirte Zeitung.
Black-and-white lithographed portrait of Rabbi Abraham Geiger, who served as a rabbi in Wiesbaden, Breslau, Frankfurt am Main, and Berlin. Published Berlin: F. Sala & Co.
Black-and-white engraving of a Levite in his vestments. From Calmet's great dictionary of the Holy Bible : historical, critical, geographical, and etymological… by Augustin Calmet, published London: Printed for Charles Taylor.
Black-and-white lithograph depicting Moses presented to Pharaoh. Lithograph by Louis Stanislas Faivre-Duffer after a painting by Victor Orsel. The original painting is held by the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon. Printed Paris: Imprimerie Lemercier.
Hand-colored lithograph of the exterior of the Hauptsynagogue (Main Synagogue) in the Börnestrasse in Frankfurt am Main. Published Frankfurt am Main: Lith. Inst. v. Ph. Frey & Co.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the synagogue located at 54 Pitt Street in New York. Originally built as a parochial school, the building later served Congregations Brith Sholem, Kochob Jacob Anshe Kamenitz de Lite, Poel Zedek Anshe Ileya, and Agudath Achim M'Krakau. Original illustration by W. A. Rogers. Published in the May 1898 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
High Holiday seating ticket for the Templul Coral (Choral Temple) in Bucharest, including a black-and-white illustration of the synagogue's exterior. The synagogue is a replica of the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna.
Black-and-white engravings depicting the priestly blessing, above, and lifting the Torah, below, at the Portuguese Synagogue in the Hague. Engraving by Bernard Picart. From Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses, Volume 1, published Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard, 1723-1737.
Black-and-white engraving depicting the interior of a sukkah during the celebration of Sukkot. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From A new and univeral history of the religious rites and ceremonies of all nations in the world by William Hurd, published London: A. Hogg.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's poster for Victorien Sardou's play Gismonda, which premiered in 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. The poster shows actress Sarah Bernhardt in costume as the play's title character. Published in a supplement to Le Courrier français, January 6, 1895.
Hand-colored etched satirical portrait of Pellegrin Treves (1733-1817), who served as postmaster general and was a friend of the Prince Regent. Etching by Richard Dighton. Published by Dighton, Charing Cross, November 20, 1801.
Black-and-white etching depicting the vestments of the Jewish high priest. Etching by Michel-François Dandré-Bardon. From Costume des anciens peuples, à l'usage des artistes, Volume 3, by Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, published Paris: chez Alex-Jombert jeune.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting Jewish musicians in Tlemcen. Engraving by Henri Théophile Hildibrand. From The Mediterranean illustrated by William Henry Davenport Adams, published London: T. Nelson and Sons.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Polish Jews in Russia. The associated article reads : "A sketch by our artist in Russia, or rather on the borders of Russian Poland, shows a two-horse cart of rustic apperance, closely packed with eager merchants of country wares and commodities for the use of the peasantry, one and all belonging to the Hebrew race, who carry on most of the inland trade in those parts of the Czar's dominions. They are travelling to the next market-town, where they will buy and sell to a considerable profit, as the Jews never fail to do in Russia, if in any country in the world." Published in the March 27, 1880, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish woman from Austria. Engraving by William Ellis. From The costume of the hereditary states of the House of Austria by Antoine François Bertrand de Molleville, translated by Robert Charles Dallas, published London: William Miller. The publication depicts the dress of people throughout areas ruled by the House of Austria (House of Habsburg).
Black-and-white lithograph of the interior of Santa María la Blanca in Toledo. Lithograph by Auguste Mathieu from an illustration by Nicolas-Marie-Joseph Chapuy. From Le Moyen-age monumental et archéologique, published Paris: A. Hauser.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with an aerial view of Berlin, including the New Synagogue. Published in the July 29, 1871, edition of Every Saturday.
Engraving after Rembrandt's painting A Seated Man with a Stick. Engraving by John Burnet. Published London: For the Associated Engravers, by Mr. John Pye.
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest. Frontispiece from Ueber die Juden und ihre tausendjährigen Leiden by S. v. Vereby.
Caricature. In German, the text reads : --"Gott - Schmul - bist de aach gelade zum reichen Salomon - und hast nich emal e reines Hemd an?" --"Du ja auch nich - !" --"Weßt De was, zieh Du mein Hemd an - und ich Dains, so haben wir doch Baide die Wäsche gewechselt!" In English, the text reads : --"Oh, God - Schmul - you're also invited to rich Salomon's -- and don't even have a clean shirt on?" --"You don't either - !" --"You know what, you put my shirt on - and I'll put on yours, that way it'll look like we both just mixed up the laundry!"
Black-and-white etching of the exteriors of the New Synagogue and Great Synagogue in Amsterdam. Etching by Jan de Beyer. From Amsterdam in zyne opkomst, aanwas, geschiedenissen, voorregten, koophandel, gebouwen, kerkenstaat, schoolen, schutterye, gilden en regeeringe by Jan Wagenaar.
Black-and-white etching depicting a Jewish man wearing a tallis (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries). He stands in front of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Text excerpted from Deuteronomy 6:8-9: "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates." Etching by Jan Luyken. From Mosaize historie der Hebreeuwse kerke, Volume 3, by Willem Goeree, published Amsterdam: Willem and David Goeree.
Color lithograph depicting Aaron in the vestments of the Jewish high priest, with text excerpted from Leviticus 16:3 : "Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place." Printed Metz: Dembour et Gangel.