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.
Color map of Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), with a key to important public buildings, including the synagogue. Published Zurich: Orell Füssli & Co.
Black-and-white lithograph depicting five Jewish men and women driving a gaggle of geese. At the bottom, excerpts from three verses. Proverbs 12:10 : A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Isaiah 9:12: The Arameans on the east, and the Philistines on the west; and they devour Israel with open mouth. Sirach 5:2-3 : Don’t follow your inclination nor your strength, in order to walk in the desires of your heart. And don’t think, “Who’ll have power over me?” Then the Lord, the highest punisher, will punish. Lithograph printed Strasbourg: Oberthür et emrich.
Black-and-white lithographed satirical portrait of financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Printed and published Prague: Haase u. Hennig. From an original by Richard Dighton.
Color lithograph depicting the Jewish cemetery in Gorlice. Lithograph by Luigi Kasimir. From Galizien 1915 : ein Künstlertagebuch by Luigi Kasimir, published Vienna: Kunstverlag Hugo Heller & Cie.
Print reproduction of a portion of John Singer Sargent's mural Triumph of Religion. Includes Biblical prophets Moses, Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah, Hosea, Amos, Nahum, Ezekiel, Daniel, Elijah, Joshua, Jeremiah, Jonah, Isaiah, Habakkuk, Micah, Haggai, Malacchi, and Zechariah. The original mural is at the Boston Public Library.
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.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction tefillin (phylacteries). From A dictionary of the Bible : comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, natural history and literature... by William Smith, published Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
Color print reproduction of the painting Saving the Torah Scrolls by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
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 published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 39. In German, the text reads : --"Denken Sie sich Herr Commerzienrath, da hab ich gestern und heute den ganzen Tag auf einem Wechsel gestanden, und hab nichts drauf gekriegt." --"Das macht, weil Sie nicht seind solid Baronsche, steh ich auf à Wechsel kriege Se überall was drauf." In English, the text reads : --"Do you think of yourself as a Commerzienrath, while I spent all day yesterday and today at the Exchange, and received nothing for it." --"That's due to the fact that you are not a baron, if I were to stand at the exchange, you would have received something from everywhere."
Color lithograph of a Jewish high priest in the Tabernacle, dressed in holy vestments and surrounded by the furnishings and implements of the Tabernacle. Copyright by J.R. Jones (1880).
Color lithograph of a Jewish high priest in the Tabernacle, dressed in holy vestments and surrounded by the furnishings and implements of the Tabernacle.
Black-and-white offset reproduction depicting the use of tefillin during prayer. From A sketch of the history of Judaism and Christianity in the light of modern research and criticism by George Thomas Bettany.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 9, No. 17. In German, the text reads : --Meyer: "Nun wie geht's?" --Moses: "Ach ich bin nur gesund." --Meyer: "Was willst du sagen mit deinem nur?" --Moses: "Was ich will sagen? Als ich hob nischt verdient, was thu ich mit der Gesundheit? Wär ich krank, hätt ich doch weniger Appetit." In English, the text reads : --Meyer: "Well how's it going?" --Moses: "Oh, I'm just healthy." --Meyer: "What are you trying to say with your 'just'? --Moses: "What am I trying to say? If I did not deserve it, what am I going to do with good health? If I were sick, I'd have less of an appetite."
Black-and-white photograph of the exterior of the Beth Yaakov Synagogue (Synagogue Beth-Yaacov de Genève), also known as the Grande Synagogue, in Geneva.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with a portrait of jurist Sir George Jessel. Published in the March 31, 1883, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the original building of Congregation Rodeph Shalom at Broad and Mount Vernon Streets in Philadelphia. Published in The Art Journal, Volume 3.
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 published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 7, No. 2. In German, the text reads : --"Wo sind se gewese?" --"Bin gewese ins Theater." --"Was habe se gegebe?"-- "24 Kreizer." --"Ich meine was für ä Stück." --"Nu, ein Sechsbatzner." --"Ach das is jo nich zum Aushalte." --"Das hab ich aach gefunde, drum bin ich weggange." In English, the text reads : --"Where were you?" --"I was at the theater" --"What did they have?" --"24 Kreuzer." --"I meant, what type of piece." --"Nu, a Sechsbatzner." --"Ah, that's unberable!" --"That's what I thought too, which is why I left." Kreuzer and Batzen are silver coins; 24 Kreuzer equals 6 Batzen (Sechsbatzner).
Hand-colored steel engraving depicting the Roman Ghetto. Engraving by Samuel Valentine Hunt after a painting by Louis Haghe. From Picturesque Europe, published London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Black-and-white steel engraving depicting the Roman Ghetto. Engraving by Samuel Valentine Hunt after a painting by Louis Haghe. From Picturesque Europe, published London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish man from Poland. Engraving by Teodor Viero. From Raccolta di ... stampe che rappresentano figure ed abiti die varie nazioni, secondo gli originali, e le descrizioni dei più celebri recenti viaggiatori, e degli scopritori di paesi nuovi, published Venice: Teodoro Viero, 1783-1791.
Black-and-white engraving depicting the piazza outside of the Roman Ghetto. The gate of the ghetto can be seen at right. Engraving by Giuseppe Vasi. From Delle Magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna, Volume 2, by Giuseppe Vasi, published Rome, 1747-1761.
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in the December 25, 1878, edition of Puck. The associated article reads : "It is to be regretted that Mr. Hilton is as unsuccessful as a dry-goods man and a hotel keeper as he notoriously was as a jurist. But the fact remains. He took it upon himself to insult a portion of our people, whose noses had more of the curvilinear from of beauty than his own pug, and he rode his high hobby-horse of purse-proud self-sufficiency until he woke up one day to find that the dry-goods business was waning—growing small by degrees and beautifully less. Then Mr. Hilton arouses himself. He turns his great mind from thoughts of the wandering bones of Stewart; he brings the power of his gigantic brain to bear upon the great question. ‘How shall I revive trade?’ He remembers that he had insulted the Jews. Aha! we’ll conciliate them. So out of the coffers that A. T. Stewart filled he gropes among the millions, and orders the trustees of a few Hebrew charities to bend the pregnant hinges of their knees at his door, and receive a few hundred dollars. But in this country the Jew is not ostracized. He stands equal before the law and before society with all his fellow-citizens, of whatever creed or nationality. And the Jew has stood up like a Man and refused to condone the gross and uncalled-for insults of this hap-hazard millionaire, merely because he flings the offer of a thousand dollars in their faces. All honor to the Jews for their manly stand in this instance. Trampled upon, scourged, banished as they have been for centuries under the ban of religious persecution, at last they find a land in which they have rights equal with all their fellow-countrymen. They have in this instance asserted their rights, and have dared to maintain their self-respect. It is the verdict of all thinking men that in everything he has done, from the Grand Union Hotel, and the Women’s Home, down to Stewart’s grave, Hilton has been a magnificent failure—and the Jews have won a grand success."
Black-and-white engraving depicting Exodus 19:16-19. Engraving by Joseph Collyer after a painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. From the Macklin Bible, published London: Printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley, 1800.
Color print reproduction of a painting by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
Black-and-white engraving depicting Bezalel building the Ark of the Covenant, as described in Exodus 37. From The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorized translation ; with all the parallel texts and marginal readings ; to which are added notes and practical observations, designed as a help to a correct understanding of the sacred writings by Adam Clarke, published Liverpool: Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, Dixon, and Gibson.
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in the April 1877 edition of Puck. The caricature depicts a conversation between the Jewish peddler Heimann Levi and a personification of New York. In German, the text reads : --Dame New-York: "Um Gotteswillen, Heimann Levi, geh' schnell hinein in die Assembly." --Heimann Levi: "Ich in die Assembly? Was soll ich da drinnen thun?" --Dame New-York: Damit zu den Herren, die viel sprechen, endlich einmal Einer kommt, der blos handelt." In English, the text reads : --Dame New-York: "For God's sake, Heimann Levi, go quickly into the Assembly." --Herimann Levi: "Me in the Assembly? What should I do inside?" --Dame New-York: "So that to the gentlemen, who speak a lot, finally comes one for once, who merely acts." In German, the verb handeln can mean "trade" or "deal," as a peddler does, as well as "act."
Hand-colored engraving of the Tomb of Zechariah in the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Kidron Valley) in Jerusalem. Engraving after a drawing by Cornelis de Bruyn. From Reizen door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus, Metelino, Stanchio, &c. : mitsgaders de voornaamste steden van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina by Cornelis de Bruyn, published Delft: Hendrik van Krooneveld.
Black-and-white steel engraving depicting priestly a Jewish high priest in his vestments. Engraving after a drawing by Vernier. From Palestine : description géographique, historique, et archéologique by Salomon Munk, published Paris: Firmin Didot frères.
Caricature published in Judge depicting the merchandise of a store for four weather conditions : very dry and sultry; clear and warmer; cloudy and occasional showers; and cold wave with indications of snow.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the New Synagogue at Great St. Helen's in London. Published in the January 5, 1839, edition of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Central Synagogue on Great Portland Street in London. From Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, Volume 4, by Walter Thornbury.
Black-and-white lithographed portraits of 40 rabbis throughout Jewish history, with a larger, central image of Maimonides. Includes Samuel Edels, Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi, Isaac Abravanel,the Maggid of Kozhnitz, the Vilna Gaon, Moses Sofer, Akiva Eger, Jonathan Eybeschütz, David Nieto, Dov Berush Meisels, Meir Leibush, Shimon Sofer, Mordecai Banet, Abraham Tiktin, Yechezkel Landau, and others. Hebrew (and some German) captions including respective rabbi's name and other information including: city, position, magnum opus, and date of death. Published Breslau: S. Schottlaender.
Sheet music for "Nach Grosswardein : Jux-Marsch nach orientalischen Motiven für Pianoforte," words by Anton Groiss; music by Hermann Rosenzweig, published Budapest: Zipser & König.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Jews from Morocco. Illustration by F. de Myrbach. From the article "Peeps into Barbary" by J. E. Budgett Meakin, published in the August 1896 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the ceremony of Havdalah. Original illustration from the article "The Jews in New York--II" by Richard Wheatley, published in the February 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the ceremony of Havdalah. From the article "The Jews in New York--II" by Richard Wheatley, published in the February 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a Jewish high priest in his vestments. From An universal history, from the earliest account of time : compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, &c. with a general index to the whole, Volume 3, published London: Printed for T. Osborne 1747-1768.
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish priest in his vestments. Engraving by Johann Gottfried Kolb. From Dictionarium historicum, criticum, chronologicum, geographicum, et literale Sacrae Scripturae, Volume 2, by Augustin Calmet, published Augsburg: Veith.
Black-and-white print of the exterior of the former Machzike Hadath Synagogue, also known as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue, at the corner of Fournier Street and Brick Lane in London. From the cover of A fortress in Anglo-Jewry : the story of the Machzike Hadath by Bernard Homa.
Black-and-white engravings depicting the priestly blessing, above, and lifting the Torah, below, at the Portuguese Synagogue in the Hague. Engraving after Bernard Picart.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a Jewish man holding a mezuzah. From An historical, critical, geographical, chronological, and etymological dictionary of the Holy Bible, Volume 2, by Augustin Calmet, published London: Printed for J. J. and P. Knapton, etc.
Hand-colored engraved caricature of a Jewish peddler. Engraving by Franz Barth. In German, the text reads : "Gar veile nennen Juden mich / Und machen drüber lustig sich - / Ich bitt Euch, mit dem Witze spart / Es giebt auch Juden ohne Bart, / Und veile, die sich Christen nennen / Und doch betrügen, wo sie können." In English, the text reads : "Many call me a Jew / And mock me for it - / I beg you, spare me the mockery / There are also Jews without a beard, / And many who call themselves Christians / And yet deceive, wherever they can."
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) in Hannover. Drawing and lithograph by Robert Geissler. Published Hannover: Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung (T. Mierzinsky).
Color print reproduction of a painting by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
Color lithographic print of Arthur Szyk's painting Rosh Hashanah. From Arthur Szyk : Six paintings of Jewish holidays, published New York : Arthur Rothmann Fine Arts.
Black-and-white woodcut depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. From Libellus de Judaica confessione by Johannes Pfefferkorn, published Cologne: Johannes Landen.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 9, No. 45. In German, the text reads : --"Na, schaun's was laufen Se immer an mei Haus vorbei, und kuke, und wolle doch nicks mache?" --"Jott, komm ich vorbei an's Haus, denk ich immer, hab' ich z' Haus nur e' ganze kleine Boutique, un bin schuldig sau viel, wenn Se aber haben saune irausse, Gott müssen Sie erst viel, sähre viel sein schuldig!" In English, the text reads : --"Now, I see that you always walk past my house, and watch, and you don't want to do anything?" --"When I come past the house, I always think, at home I've got a very small boutique, and owe so much, but you've got a ton of space, God must owe you a lot!
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 : --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!"
Color print reproduction of a painting by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
Color drawing depicting children playing hopscotch. Drawing by Gabriella Rosenthal. From Odd corners in Jerusalem : twelve coloured drawings (Simṭaʾot bi-Yerushalayim : 12 tsiyurim tsivʻoniyim me-et Gavriʾelah Rozenṭal) by Gabriella Rosenthal.
Black-and-white lithograph depicting vestments of the Jewish priests and high priests. From Le costume historique by Auguste Racinet, published Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie.
Caricature by Frederick Burr Opper published in the May 11, 1881, edition of Puck. The caption reads : "How they may make themselves independent of the watering place hotels."
Print reproduction of Leopold Pilichowski's painting The Opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, depicting the ceremonies held on April 1, 1925. Notables, including Herbert Samuel, Chaim Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow, Hayim Nahman Bialik, and Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, are grouped about Arthur Balfour, who is seen delivering the inaugural address.
Sheet music cover for "Song of the Hebrew maiden : in answer to the song of the crusader," written by Mrs. Crawford; music by Mrs. Miller, published London: Jefferys & Nelson.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with portraits of Jewish individuals prominent in London during the late 19th century. Includes the following: Rev. Professor David Woolf Marks, Baron Henry de Worms, Dr. Henry Behrend, Sir Phillip Magnus, Samuel Montagu, Joseph Sebag Montefiore, Sir Albert Sassoon, Benjamin Louis Cohen, Dr. Michael Friedländer, Sir John Simon, Frederick David Mocatta, Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler, Rev. Dr. Moses Gaster, Sir Julian Goldsmid, and Rev. Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler.
Black-and-white steel engraved portrait of merchant and banker Salomon Heine. From Neues Conversations-Lexikon für alle Stände, Volume 8, by Hermann Julius Meyer.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of merchant Henry Simons, who came to prominence as the result of a legal action for assault and robbery brought against him in 1753. From Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II, Volume 3, by James Caulfield, published London: T. H. Whitely.
Hand-colored etching depicting the Hep-Hep riots against Jews in Frankfurt. Participants in these riots rallied to the cry, "Hep! Hep!" The image contains Christians of different social classes beating and targeting Jews, as well as looting their homes. Two peasant women are assaulting a Jew with a pitchfork and a broom. A man wearing a waistcoat and cravat, of a higher social class, has a Jew by his throat and is aiming to beat him with a stick. Etching by Johann Michael Voltz.
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."
Color drawing depicting a man purchasing herring from a shop. Drawing by Gabriella Rosenthal. From Odd corners in Jerusalem : twelve coloured drawings (Simṭaʾot bi-Yerushalayim : 12 tsiyurim tsivʻoniyim me-et Gavriʾelah Rozenṭal) by Gabriella Rosenthal.
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish high priest in his vestments. Engraving by François van Bleyswyck. From An historical, critical, geographical, chronological, and etymological dictionary of the Holy Bible, Volume 1, by Augustin Calmet, published London: Printed for J. J. and P. Knapton, etc.
Black-and-white wood engraving of Jewish high priests in their vestments. From The works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior, translated by William Whiston, published Baltimore: Armstrong & Berry.
Black-and-white engraving of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. 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 offset print reproduction depicting the vestments of a Jewish priest and high priest. From A dictionary of the Bible : comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, natural history and literature... by William Smith, published Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
Print reproduction of Jack Levine's painting portraying Hillel (1955). From Teachers and kings : six paintings by Jack Levine, published Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Eugène Delacroix's painting Jewish Wedding in Morocco. Published in Payne's Universum und Buch der Kunst, Neue Folge, Dritte Band.
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.
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."
Sheet music for "Peace, O star of hope," words and music by Rose E. Slesnick, published Oil City, Pennsylvania: R. E. Slesnick. On cover: For the benefit of the Hebrew war sufferers.
Caricature. In German, the text reads : --"Mai - höre, Memmelchen! Hab' ich doch gemacht alle Papierche zu baarem Gold und wollt' es wegschicken, weil es nicht mehr sicher ist hier - aber sie lassens nicht mehr hinaus, und wenn sie uns hier todtschlagen kriegen se unser Geld ach noch - das bringt mich um." In English, the text reads : "Dear mother, isten to me! I had all of the paper money turned into bars of gold and wanted to send it away, because it isn't safe here anymore - but they are not letting any more out, and if they kill us here, they will get our money also - that kills me."
Color print reproduction of a watercolor by Jaroslav Šetelík of gravestones in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. From Praha by Jaroslav Šetelík, published Prague: Legiografie.
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