Black-and-white engraving entitled depicting "express travel" to the Sabbath. One man whips a horse, urging it to go faster, while another holds up a timepiece.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 7, No. 31. In German, the text reads : --Gerichtsvollzieher: "Herr Hirsch treten Sie ein, nehmen Sie das Ihnen zuerkannte Pferd in Empfang - Sie stehen sich von allen Gläubigern am Besten." --Hirsch: "Wai - was seh ich - der Gaul is capot, is das mei Deckung für 800 Thalersch?" --Stalljung: ""Das hab' ich mir glaich gedacht, dass das arme Thier krepiert wird sai - seit 4 Wochen konnt ich ihm kai Futter bringe - weil der Stall von Gerichtswegen versiegelt war." In English, the text reads : --Bailiff: "Enter, Mr. Hirsch, take in the horse you were awarded. You are the top of the list of creditors." --Hirsch: "Oh - what am I seeing - the horse is ruined, is this my cover for 800 thalers?" --Stable boy: "That's the same thought I had, that the poor animal will die - for four weeks I could bring him no food - because the stable was sealed by the court."
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish man from Poland. Engraving by Christoph Weigel after Caspar Luyken. From Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria by Abraham a Sancta Clara, published Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel.
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in Puck. In German, the caption reads : "Ein Mittel weiß ich, wunderbar, das führt zum ew'gen Frieden, - Ein Austausch ist's: Victoria, sie nimmt die armen Jüden, - Und über Irland's Söhne darf der Russen Czar gebieten, - Als Straßenkehrer nehmen wir den Mann vom sonn'gen Süden. - Auf diese Weise wird der Welt die Ruhe bald beschieden." The text proposes an exchange of emigrants. Under Quotations: "England - Jews in demand." The caricature depicts Queen Victoria taking two Jews under her arms.
Text of a song entitled "Victory Hymn of a Straussian," written in reaction to the appointment of theologian David Friedrich Strauss to the University of Zurich in 1839. The text, in Swiss German, reads : "Äh e chli heidnisch / Möchtid mer werde / Chönntid dänn türggisch / Läben uf Erde! / Ach e chli jüdisch / Möchtid mer sÿ / Swärid dänn gwüß / Käni Zinsli meh chlÿ!" In English, the text reads : "Oh, a bit heathen / We want to become / We could then like the Turkish (Muslims) / Live on Earth! / Oh, a bit Jewish / We want to be / Then certainly / No more would any interest (from lending money) be small!"
Print reproduction of a black-and-white sketched portrait of physicist Albert Einstein. Original sketch by Carola Spaeth Hauschka. Published in the February 1936 edition of Fortune.
Black-and-white etching of the interior of the exterior of the former location of Temple Emanu-El at 5th Avenue and 43rd Street in New York. Etching signed by the artist Curt Szekessy.
Black-and-white print illustration of the exterior of Temple Emanu-El in New York. From Description of the new buildings being erected at 65th Street and Fifth Avenue by Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York : consisting of Temple Emanu-El, Beth-El Chapel, Community House, published New York: Sherman & Lebair, Inc.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the New Synagogue at Great St. Helen's in London during the election of Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler as Chief Rabbi. Published in the December 21, 1844, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Print reproduction of a black-and-white drawing of the exterior of the Great Synagogue in Sydney, New South Wales, by artist and synagogue member Cedric Emanuel.
Black-and-white engraving of the original location of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun on Elm Street in New York. After a drawing by Alexander Jackson Davis.
Black-and-white engraving of the original location of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun on Elm Street in New York. After a drawing by Alexander Jackson Davis.
Caricature on the subject of Jewish emanicipation. In German, the text reads : "Du machst mit deinen Geld hienieden. / Ganz nach Gefallen Krieg und Frieden. / Zum Dank sind diese grosse Orden. / Dir allgemach zutheil geworden. / Zwar darf ich das Kreuz nicht leiden. / Doch golden nehm' ich's an mit Freuden. / Wie Meyer, Hirsch und Löwe schon. / Gold bringt zum Ruhm und hohe Ehre. / Hoch stehe ich auf goldne Heere. / Und hoff' Emancipation." In English, the text reads : "You put your money beneath you. / All of it after the beneficial war and peace. / Thank God these are the largest orders. / The majority became a part of it. / Even though I am not allowed to suffer the cross. / Still, golden I'll take it on with friends. / Like Meyer, Hirsch, and Löwe already. / Gold brings glory and high honors. / I stand up high on golden armies. / And hope for emancipation." Published Leipzig: Luis Rocca.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting people of the Russian Empire. Published in a supplement to the December 9, 1871, edition of Harper's Weekly.
Black-and-white lithograph of a Jewish man from Russia at prayer. Lithograph printed by Imprimerie Lemercier after a drawing by Vasily Fiodorovitch (Georg Wilhelm) Timm. From Costumes russes, published by Daziaro, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Doctor: "You can live only two days more, Mr. Moses." --Moses: "Oh, doctor dear, maig idt dhree days so I can finish dot medicine. Idt vos so oxpensive."
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.
Color lithograph of Jewish children from Algeria. Illustration by Louis Lassalle. Lithograph printed Paris: J. Rigo et Cie. From L'Algérie de la jeunesse by Christian Pitois, published Paris : Alph. Desesserts.
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!"
Hand-colored engraving depicting the standards of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, along with the Tabernacle, above right. Illustration of Numbers 2:2 : "The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers' houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting." Below, a Torah scroll and its ornaments. Engraving by Castelli. From Le Costume ancien et moderne, ou, Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes, Asia, Volume 3, by Giulio Ferrario, published Milan: De l'imprimerie de l'editeur, 1815-1829.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the entrance to the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. From A dictionary of the Bible : comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, natural history and literature... by William Smith, published Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
Color lithograph of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. After a lithograph by Louis Haghe from a drawing by David Roberts. From The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, Volume 1, published London: Lithographed, printed and published by Day & Son.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. Published in the July 29, 1854, edition of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Print reproduction of a color lithograph depicting the exterior of a planned Jewish hospital to be built in Jersualem with funds bequeathed by Judah Touro, as well as a lithograp of plans for the hospital. Original lithographs by Vincent Brooks. Plans to build the proposed hospital were abandoned when the Rothschild family established a hospital in the city. Reproduction printed on the occasion of the 28th year of Israeli Independence and on the 200th year of American Independence, published Philadelphia: The Winchell Co.
Sheet of black-and-white engravings used as an advertisement for Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria by Abraham a Sancta Clara, published Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel, 1703. The center and right plates on the bottom row depict Jews from Frankfurt and Poland.
Sheet music cover for "Le juif-errant : quadrille pour piano," composed by Philippe Musard, published Paris: E. Troupenas & Cie, London: R. Cocks, and Mainz: B. Schott.
Lithograph for the sheet music cover for "Le juif errant : quadrille brillant," by Victor Lazard, published Paris: L. d'Arnaud. Lithograph by Frédéric Bouchot.
Sheet music cover for "Le juif errant : mélodie pour voix de basse," words by Ch. Durand du Fossat; music by H. de St. Paul, published Paris: S. Richault.
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?"
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with a portrait of author Israel Zangwill. From a painted portrait by Solomon J. Solomon. Published in the January 19, 1895, edition of The Graphic.
Black-and-white stipple-engraved portrait of financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Engraving after a drawing by Charles Penny. London, published February 13, 1827, by Smith, Elder & Co.
Color lithograph of Queen Esther. Chromolithograph printed by Jehenne after a painting by Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. From Woman in sacred history : a series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical, and legendary sources by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Black-and-white engraving depicting scenes from the Book of Esther. From Biblische Geschichten des Alten und Neuen Testaments / Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti by Joseph Sebastian Klauber and Johann Baptist Klauber.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Galician peasants and Jews. From Nouvelle géographie universelle : la terre et les hommes by Élisée Reclus.
Black-and-white line engraving of a Jewish man and woman from Tangier. Engraving by William Finden after Pharamond Blanchard. From Voyage pittoresque en Espagne, en Portugal et sur la côte d'Afrique de Tanger a Tétouan by Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor, published Paris: A. F. Lemaitre.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 12. In German, the text reads : --Levi: "Wai - ich sterbe - ich hab jedem von Euch vermacht, 8000 Thaler, mein Sohn soll sie Euch auszahlen nach Jahresfrist." --Erben: "Warum erst nach Jahresfrist, Herr Levi?" --Levi: "Nu - bezahlt mir den Diskonto, so will ich's so ins Testament setzen, dass Ihr sie gleich kriegen könnt." In English, the text reads: --Levi: "Oh - I'm dying - I have bequeathed each of you 8000 Thaler, my son will disburse them to you after a year." --Heirs: "Why only after a year?" --Levi: "Nu - Pay off my discount for me, then I will put it in the will, that you all can receive it right away." Discounting is a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor in exchange for a charge or fee.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Karaite kenesas in Eupatoria. Published in the November 25, 1854, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of lighting the Sabbath lamp. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting a Passover seder. From A sketch of the history of Judaism and Christianity in the light of modern research and criticism by George Thomas Bettany.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting a shochet in a Jewish slaughterhouse. From the article "The Jews in New York--II" by Richard Wheatley, published in the February 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
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.
Hand-colored engraving of financiers gathered at the Royal Exchange in London. Several Jewish figures are present in the scene, including Sir Moses Montefiore in conversation with Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Drawn and engraved by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank, published London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones. From Life in London or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the Metropolis by Pierce Egan.
Black-and-white lithographed satirical portrait of financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Printed Leipzig: E. Pönicke. From an original by Richard Dighton.
Caricature by Louis M. Glackens published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Isaacs: "Dere, now, I vill not vaste time mit dose things no more. Health or no health, time ish moneysh, and moneysh is vot I vos after." 2. --Mrs. Isaacs: "Oh, vot shall I do! Der doctor says as he vill die of der fatness if he don't take der dump-pell exercise." 3. --Mrs. Isaacs: "I haf it! I vill draw some plans und dake dem to dot iron foundries. He shall dake dot exercises." 4. --Mrs. Isaacs: " Come up in dot exercise room, Morris." --Mr. Isaacs: "I vill go, but no exercise for me on your life not." 5 --Mr. Isaacs: "Oh, Repecca! You vos one of dose ingeniuses. I could keep dis up all tay."
Black-and-white engraving depicting scenes from the Book of Exodus. From Biblische Geschichten des Alten und Neuen Testaments / Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti by Joseph Sebastian Klauber and Johann Baptist Klauber.
Explanation to the frontispiece of A new and universal history of the religious rites and ceremonies of all nations of the world by William Hurd, published London: Printed for A. Hogg.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the New Synagogue at Great St. Helen's in London. Published in the January 12, 1839, edition of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz. Engraving by Jan Balzer after Johann Kleinhard. From Abbildungen böhmischer und mährischer Gelehrten und Künstler : nebst kurzen Nachrichten von ihren Leben und Werken, Volume 1, by František Martin Pelcl, published Prague: Wolffgang Gerle.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. From A dictionary of the Bible : comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, natural history and literature... by William Smith, published Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the Tombs of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. From A dictionary of the Bible : comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, natural history and literature... by William Smith, published Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
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."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of individuals at the Leipzig Trade Fair, including a Jew from Poland. From the article "Leipsic and its Fair" by Thomas Emmette, published in Scribner's Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 1871).
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Tisha B'Av in the synagogue. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Color engraving depicting the Binding of Isaac, as described in Genesis 22:12. Engraving by Albert Henry Payne after a painting by François-Nicolas-Augustin Feyen-Perrin. From The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments; with notes by the Rev. J. Brown; and extracts from the best biblical authors; revised and edited by the Rev. H. Philip; with a family register and fifty-seven coloured engravings, published London: James Hagger; Leipzig and Dresden: A. H. Payne.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Shavuot in the synagogue. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the interior of a sukkah during the celebration of Sukkot. 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 offset print reproduction of Moritz Oppenheim's painting Seder (The Passover Meal) (Der Oster-Abend). Published in The Aldine, Volume 5.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting a Passover seder. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Metal engraving of Jewish priest sacrificing a burnt offering during the celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles, as described in Ezra 3:4. Text beneath the image reads: "Repentant Israel keeps the Feast of Tabernacles to obey the law of God; and to the priest the people offerings bring each day."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Sukkot in the synagogue. From A sketch of the history of Judaism and Christianity in the light of modern research and criticism by George Thomas Bettany.
Black-and-white wood engraving of the Tombs of the Sanhedrin and the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. From Palästina in bild und wort : Nebst der Sinaihalbinsel und dem lande Gosen by Georg Ebers, published Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish woman from Cairo. From Atlas historique, ou, Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire, à la chronologie & à la géographie ancienne & moderne,Volume 6, by Henri Abraham Chatelain, published Amsterdam: Chez François L'Honoré & Compagnie, 1705-1720.
Black-and-white etching of a Jewish woman from Poland. Etching by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. From Habillements de diverses nations by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince.
Hand-colored aquatint of a Jewish woman from Poland. Engraving by Philibert-Louis Debucourt after a drawing by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine. From Zbiór rozmaitych stroiów polskich / Costumes polonais.
Black-and-white lithograph of a Jewish celebration in Algeria. From Voyage pittoresque dans la Régence d’Alger by Émile-Aubert Lessore and William Wyld. Printed and published Paris: Charles Motte.
Black-and-white wood engraving accompanying the article The Festival of the Jewish Sabbath by Charles Hole, published in the April 1, 1870, edition of The Sunday Magazine.
Black-and-white engraving depicting Purim festivities. From Philologus hebræo-mixtus by Johannes Leusden, published Ultrajecti : ex officinâ Francisci Halma.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). Engraving by John B. Neagle. Frontispiece to The genuine works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian : containing twenty books of the Jewish antiquities, seven books of the Jewish war, and the life of Josephus, written by himself... by the late William Whiston... Revised, and illustrated with notes, by the Rev. Samuel Burder..., published Boston: Printed and published by S. Walker, Newbury-Street.
Black-and-white steel engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). From Curiosities of Great Britain : England & Wales delineated, historical, entertaining & commercial, Volume 11, by Thomas Dugdale, published London: L. Tallis.
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.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the former location of Temple Shaaray Tefila at 127 West 44th Street in New York. Published in the July 3, 1869, edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Black-and-white etching of the exterior of Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street, rebuilt after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Etching signed by the artist Lawrence Norris Scammon.
Black-and-white compilation of illustrations of landmarks in San Francisco, including Temple Emanu-El on Sutter Street. From the article "San Francisco in der Phantasie und in der Wirklichkeit" by Theodor Kirchhoff, published in Die Gartenlaube.
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