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 steel engraving of the Tomb of Absalom and Tomb of Zechariah in the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Kidron Valley) in Jerusalem. Engraving after a drawing by Louis François Cassas. From Palestine : description géographique, historique, et archéologique by Salomon Munk, published Paris: Firmin Didot frères.
Hand-colored engraving of Jewish clothes merchants. Engraving after a drawing by Gustave de Galard. From Recueil des divers costumes des habitans de Bordeaux et des environs by Edmond Géraud, published Bordeaux: Lavigne jeune.
Black-and-white lithographed portrait of Rabbi Marchand Ennery, Chief Rabbi of France. Lithograph by Hermann Raunheim. With Hebrew text of Psalm 119:15 : I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways.
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 engraving of the exterior of the Israelitisches Krankenhaus Hamburg. Drawn and engraved by James Grey. Published Hamburg: B. S. Berendsohn.
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 engraving depicting priestly a Jewish 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.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a Jewish marriage ceremony. Engraving by William Kneass. From A dictionary of the Holy Bible : containing an historical account of the persons, a geographical and historical account of the places, a literal, critical, and systematical description of other objects, whether natural, artificial, civil, religious, or military... by John Brown, published Pittsburgh: Zadok Cramer.
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish man and woman from Algiers. From Histoires de la Chine, du Japon, de la Perse, de l'Inde, de l'Arabie, de la Turquie, de l'Égypte, de l'Algérie, etc. depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1840 by de Saurigny, published Paris: Duménil.
Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish man and woman from Algiers. Engraving by E. Vermocken. From Les moeurs et costumes de tous les peuples, d'après les documents les plus authentiques, les voyages les plus récents et des matériaux inédits by Casimir Henricy, published Paris: Librairie ethnographique.
Black-and-white etched portrait of well-known Jewish peddler Mordechai Löb (1745-1817) of Schlüchtern, known as the "Preusje von Schlüchtern." Etching by Ludwig Emil Grimm.
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish high priest in his vestments. Engraving by Peter Maverick. From Calmet's great Dictionary of the Holy Bible : historical, critical, geographical, and etymological… by Augustin Calmet, published Charlestown, Mass.: Printed and sold by Samuel Etheridge.
Hand-colored engraving of the Tombs of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. Engraving by Giuseppe Bramati. From Descrizione della Palestina, o, storia del vangelo by Giulio Ferrario, published Milan: Milano, Società tipog. de' classici italiani.
Sheet music cover for "Israel in Egypt," composed by George Frideric Handel; arranged by John Clarke-Whitfield. With an engraving depicting text excerpted from Exodus 15 : "The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea." Engraving by Isaac Taylor after Thomas Uwins. Published London: Clementi, Collard & Collard.
Hand-colored steel engraving of the interior of the New Synagogue at Great St. Helen's in London during Sukkot. Engraved by Henry Melville (1792-1870) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for the part-work "London Interiors: A Grand National Exhibition" (London : 1841-1844).
Black-and-white engraving of the interior of the Istanbuli Synagogue in Jerusalem. From Palestine. Description géographique, historique, et archéologique by Salomon Munk.
Black-and-white wood engraving of six New York City landmarks, including the original location of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun on Elm Street. Engraving by William D. Smith after a drawing by Alexander Jackson Davis.
Color lithograph of three peasants from Podlasie, of Rusyn origin, seated at a table. Three Polish Jews can be seen in the background. Lithograph by Frédéric-Emile Simon after Jan Nepomucen Lewicki. From Les costumes du peuple polonais : suivis d'une description exacte de ses moeurs, de ses usages et de ses habitudes by Leon Józef Zienkowicz.
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.
Black-and-white lithograph of Crimean Karaites in Feodosia (Caffa). Lithograph by Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, printed by Auguste Bry. From Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale & la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie : exécutée en 1837 by Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, published Paris: Gihaut Frères.
Hand-colored lithograph of a merchant from Kaluga with his wife shown in both summer and winter clothes. From Vollständige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen aller Nationen by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche.
Hand-colored etched satirical portrait of financier and philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore. Drawn, etched, and published by Richard Dighton, June 1818. Reissue published by Thomas McLearn, 26 Haymarket, 1824.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior and interior of the Hamburg Temple (Israelitischer Tempel) in the Poolstraße, on the occasion of the inauguration on September 5, 1844. Published in the Illustrirte Zeitung.
Black-and-white lithograph of the interior of the Hamburg Temple (Israelitischer Tempel) in the Poolstraße, which was inaugurated on September 5, 1844. Lithograph by Peter Suhr after a drawing by Carl Alexander Lill.
Caricature of Jewish participation in the National Guard during the Revolutions of 1848. In German, the text reads : "Hascheln! Habts Acht! Mer sein jetzt gekümmen vor unsern Kümmandanten sein Haus. Regimentstrommler! Schlog ein Werbel, trrrrrrrr - soll ach Hoch leben." (On the banner) : "Profit. Gleiche Rechte mit den Christen!" In English, the text reads : "Attention! Pull yourselves together, troops! We are marching to our commander's house. Regiments, beat your drums!" (On the banner): "Profit. Equal rights with Christians!" Lithograph printed and published Vienna: F. Werner, Mariahilf.
Caricature of Jewish participation in the National Guard during the Revolutions of 1848. In German, the text reads : "Hascheln! Habts Acht! Mer sein jetzt gekümmen vor unsern Kümmandanten sein Haus. Regimentstrommler! Schlog ein Werbel, trrrrrrrr - soll ach Hoch leben." (On the banner) : "Profit. Gleiche Rechte mit den Christen!" In English, the text reads : "Attention! Pull yourselves together, troops! We are marching to our commander's house. Regiments, beat your drums!" (On the banner): "Profit. Equal rights with Christians!" Lithograph printed Leipzig: J. G. Fritzsche.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Engraving by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after a painting by Johann Christoph Frisch. From Bildnisse der berühmtesten Menschen aller Völker und Zeiten, published Zwickau: Gebr. Schumann.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). Engraving by J. Rogers. Frontispiece to The works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior… translated by William Whiston, published London: Henry Fisher, Son, and Co.
Black-and-white steel engraving depicting the vestments of the Jewish high priest. Engraving by Bosserodon after François Hippolyte Lalaisse. From Histoire de la Terre-Sainte depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours by abbé Martin, published Paris: Duménil.
Black-and-white steel engraved portrait of rabbi and scholar Moses Edrehi. Engraving by J. C. Hunter. From The book of miracles by Moses Edrehi, published London: Printed for the author.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the interior of the Istanbuli Synagogue in Jerusalem. Engraving by James C. Redaway after a drawing by J. Salmon. From Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated, Volume 3, by John Carne. Published London & Paris : Fisher, Son & Co.
This 1833 certificate designates Lion Barend Paerl, maternal great-great-great-grandfather of Vera Nathans, as the president of the Nederlandsche Israelitische Hoofd-Synagoge te Amsterdam.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a Jewish burial. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From Histoire des religions et des moeurs de tous les peuples du monde / avec 600 gravures, représentant toutes les cérémonies et coutumes religieuses, dessinées et gravées par le célèbre B. Picart ; publiées en Hollande, par J.-Fr. Bernard, Volume 5, published Paris: A. Belin, 1816-1819.
Black-and-white engraving depicting the Yom Kippur ritual of malkot (lashes) in the Great Synagogue of Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From A new univeral history of the religious rites, ceremonies and customs of the whole world by William Hurd, published Manchester: J. Gleave.
Black-and-white line engraved portrait of philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Engraving by Wenzel Pobuda. Frontispiece to Sämmtliche Werke : aus dem lateinischen mit dem Leben Spinoza's, Volume 1, by Berthold Auerbach, published Stuttgart: J. Scheible.
Hand-colored engraving depicting a Jewish man holding a mezuzah. 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.
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