Color lithographed portrait of three rabbis: the Vilna Gaon (above), Rabbi Meir Leibush (below right), and Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (below left). Printed in Germany.
Color lithographed portrait of three rabbis: Rabbi Yechezkel Landau (above), Rabbi Moses Sofer (below right), and Rabbi Akiva Eger (below left). Printed in Germany.
Engraving of a Jewish man wearing a prayer shawl and phylacteries. From Introduction à l'Ecriture sainte, où l'on traite tout ce qui concerne les Juifs… by Bernard Lamy.
Caricature. The text in German reads : --Bauer: "Wolf - wie kimmts doch, daß ihr Juden o' Schwain nit loide könnt?" --Jude: "Is doch nich immer der Fall - wir Zwa sein doch die besten Freunde." In English, the text reads : --Peasant: "Wolf - how is it, that you Jews can't stand pigs?" --Jew: "That isn't always the case - we two are the best of friends."
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.
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.
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."
Hand-colored lithograph of a Jewish high priest, with text of the priestly blessing found in Numbers 6:23-27 printed below. Lithograph by W. Watkins after J. Brown.
Black-and-white engravings depicting the Passover custom of the mother placing bits of unleavened bread for the father and children to discover and dispose of, above, and a Passover seder of Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam, below. Engraving after Bernard Picart.
Painting of Rahab and the spies, with text from Joshua 2:15 : "Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall."
Black-and-white engraving depicting the flood, with inset scenes of Noah entering and leaving the ark. Engraving by John Chester Buttre after a painting by Nicolas Poussin.
Color lithograph depicting the Binding of Isaac, as described in Genesis 22:1-19. Lithograph by James Richard Barfoot. Published London: Darton & Co., Holborn Hill.
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.
Black-and-white engravings depicting Jacob wrestling with the angel, as described in Genesis 32; and Jacob meeting Esau, as described in Genesis 33. From a Latin Bible.
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 offset print reproduction with a compilation of images from the Jewish quarter in Prague, including the Old New Synagogue, Jewish Town Hall, and graves from the Old Jewish Cemetery.
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.
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.
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 engraving of the exterior of the Great Synagogue in Amsterdam. From Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt den Huyse der Heeren van Aemstel en Aemstellant by Casparus Commelin.
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.
Hand-colored lithograph of the interior of the Semper-Synagoge (Semper Synagogue), also known as the Dresdner Synagoge (Dresden Synagogue) or Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue). Lithograph by Renner & Ketzschau.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Grand Synagogue of Paris. From La France juive. Essai d'histoire contemporaine. Edition illustrée de scène, vues, portraits, cartes et plans... by Édouard Drumont.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Grand Synagogue of Paris. From La France juive. Essai d'histoire contemporaine. Edition illustrée de scène, vues, portraits, cartes et plans... by Édouard Drumont.
Hand-colored lithograph of the exterior of the Semper-Synagoge (Semper Synagogue), also known as the Dresdner Synagoge (Dresden Synagogue) or Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue). Lithograph by Johann Riedel after a drawing by Gustav Täubert. Published Dresden: Verlag v. G. Täubert.
Black-and-white steel engraving of landmarks in Wiesbaden, including the Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue) on Michelsberg. Engraving by C. Rorich & Sohn. Published Zurich: Verlag v. J. H. Locher.
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 steel engraving of the exterior of the New Synagogue in Berlin. Engraving by August Weger. Published Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung.
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).
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of St. Thomas Synagogue in Charlotte Amalie on the island of Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Lithograph by Charles Fuchs lith. Inst., Hamburg.
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.
Black-and-white lithograph of the interior of the 1822 building of the Synagogue de Nazareth, located on the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, in Paris. Lithograph by Jules-Robert-Pierre-Joseph Challamel after an original drawing by the Marquis de Villeneuve. Published in L'Artiste.
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the Semper-Synagoge (Semper Synagogue), also known as the Dresdner Synagoge (Dresden Synagogue) or Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue). Lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengl.
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue) in Stuttgart. Drawing and lithograph by Robert Geissler. Published Stuttgart: Verlag von Paul Neff.
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.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the interior of the Große Gemeindesynagoge (Great Community Synagogue), also known as the Temple and the Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue) in Leipzig. Engraving by Alfred Krauße after a drawing by Adolf Eltzner.
Print reproduction of a pen and ink drawing of the exterior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Original drawing by Ludwig Willem Reymer Wenckebach.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the former location of Congregation Beth Israel on Main Street in Hartford, formerly the home of the First Baptist Church. The congregation renamed the building Touro Hall. From Geer's Hartford City Directory.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the exterior of the Salvatorkirche in Passau. Engraving by Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel after a drawing by Conrad Wießner. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Passau in 1478, one or more buildings in the Jewish area of the Ilzstadt, including one housing a Schul, were demolished to make way for the church. Engraving from Das Königreich Bayern in seinen altertümlichen geschichtlichen, artistischen und malerischen Schönheiten by Maximilian Benno Peter von Chlingensperg.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the interior of the Salvatorkirche in Passau. Engraving by Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel after a drawing by Gustav Seeberger. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Passau in 1478, one or more buildings in the Jewish area of the Ilzstadt, including one housing a Schul, were demolished to make way for the church. Engraving from Das Königreich Bayern in seinen altertümlichen geschichtlichen, artistischen und malerischen Schönheiten by Maximilian Benno Peter von Chlingensperg.
Hand-colored steel engraving of the interior of the Salvatorkirche in Passau. Engraving by Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel after a drawing by Gustav Seeberger. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Passau in 1478, one or more buildings in the Jewish area of the Ilzstadt, including one housing a Schul, were demolished to make way for the church. Engraving from Das Königreich Bayern in seinen altertümlichen geschichtlichen, artistischen und malerischen Schönheiten by Maximilian Benno Peter von Chlingensperg.
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.
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.