Black-and-white wood engraving depicting Moses descending from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. Wood engraving by Héliodore Pisan after an illustration by Gustave Doré.
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."
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 engraving depicting a Jewish circumcision. Engraving by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin after Hubert-François Gravelot. From The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World : together with historical annotations and several curious discourses... Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates designed by Mr. Bernard Picart, and curiously engraved by most of the best hands in Europe..., Volume 1, published London: William Jackson and Claude Dubosc, 1733-1739.
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