Contract for the purchase of a seat in the women's gallery of the Synagogue de Nazareth, located on the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, in Paris. Seat paid for by Anselme Halphen.
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.
Hand-colored etching of the exteriors of the New Synagogue and Great Synagogue in Amsterdam. Engraving by Willem Hendrik Hoogamer after a drawing by Cornelis de Kruyff. From Vues choisies d'Amsterdam et ses environs dessinées d'après nature par C. de Kuyf et autres artistes, published Amsterdam: chez Franois Buffa & Fils.
Black-and-white lithographed portrait of Lelio Cantoni, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish universities of Piedmont. Lithograph by D. Festa after a drawing by Petronilla.
Hand-colored etching depicting a sentimental contemplation of the moon. In German, the text reads : "Nicht weiss gesotten, nicht plettirt, / Und doch solch magnifiquer Schein! / Ach, mein Gemüth ist ganz gerührt / Er muss messiv von Silber seyn!" In English, the text reads : "Not blanched, not plated, / And yet such a magnifiscent gleam! Oh, my soul is deeply moved / It must be made of silver!"
Hand-colored etched caricature depicting a fantastical view of the sun. In German, the text reads : "Gotts Wunder, welcher Glanz und Schein / Das muss ep's rores von Vergilding seyn!" In English, the text reads : "God's wonders, which glimmer and shine / That must be something rare and gilt!"
Caricature of Jewish participation in the National Guard during the Revolutions of 1848. In German, the text reads : --"Wai! -- A Wai der Feind kümmt! -- A Wai! Se thün auch scheißsen!" In English, the text reads : --"Vey! -- Oy vey the enemy is coming! -- Oy, vey! They are shooting too!"
Hand-colored engraving depicting a Jewish man holding a mezuzah. Engraving by Bennardoni. 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, published Firenze: V. Batelli.
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 lithograph of Jews from Algiers. Lithograph after a drawing by R. Jungmann. From Costumes, moeurs et usages des Algériens by R. Jungmann, published Strasbourg: J. Bernard.
Color lithograph of "Death to the Jew" from La danse des morts à Bâle de Holbein / Basler Todtentanz von Hans Holbein by Hieronymus Hess, published Basel: Hasler & Cie. In German, the text reads : --Der Tod zum Juden: "Hujum, Jud! mach dich auf die Fahrt; / Dein's Messiä hast zu lang g'wart: / Christum, welchen ihr habt ermördt, / War der recht, ihr habt lang geirrt." --Antwort des Juden: "Ein Rabbi war ich der Geschrift, / Zog aus der Bibel nur das Gift: / Gar wenig nach Messiam tracht, / Hatt' mehr auf Schätz und Wucher Acht." In English, the text reads : --Death to the Jew: "Up, Jew, and take the common gate, / In vain you for Messiah wait; / Christ, whom, you slew, was He indeed, / You've follow'd long a hopeless creed." The Jew's reply: "As Rabbi long the law I knew, / But poison from its pages drew; / Messiah had few charms for me, / My faith was Gold and Usury."
Black-and-white engraving of Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. Engraving by William Finden after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner from a sketch by Archibald Edmonstone. From Landscape illustrations of the Bible, consisting of views of the most remarkable places mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, published London: John Murray.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the Tomb of Absalom in Jerusalem. From Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildung und Beschreibung des Sehenswerthesten und Merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen Erde, published Hildburghausen: Bibliogr. Instit.
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 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 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.
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