Caricature by Franklin Morris Howarth published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Isaacs: "Ikey, look, look! See vat your fader learns out mit dis pook! I can do it! I'm a hypnotister!" 2 "Now watch! Here gomes a jay gustomer. Go out mit der store. Leaf me alone. I will hypnotister him. I vill get me double brices! 3 --"Vat, you only vant a pair of pants? Look me in der eye!" --Mr. Hardacre (aside): "That feller is tryin' ter hypnertize me. I used ter be purty good at that game, myself. I'll try my hand at it." 4 --Mr. Isaacs (aside): "Oh! If I had only known dese dricks pefore. (To Hardacre.) Look in der glass. Isn't dot fine, undt only feefty tollars." --Mr. Hardacre: "I'll let him think he has me!" 5 --Mr. Isaacs: "And you vant a fine silk hat. Ah! you look schoost like dot Brince of Vales (Aside.) Oh! dis vas too easy!" --Mr. Hardacre (aside): "Now I'm ready to begin on him." 6 (Making the hypnotic passes : immediately transfixing Isaacs and handing him a piece of paper). "Now you want your money, I suppose? Here is a hundred-dollar-bill. Give me the change." 7 --"Yes, that is right! Ten, twenty, thirty, forty. Now, you sit down on that chair and don't move until that clock strikes five. Good-by!" 8 --Young Isaacs: "Fader, vat's der matter? You see nodding mit your eyes open. Vhere's der gustomer you hypnertisted? Vake up! Vake up!" 9 --Mr. Isaacs (as he awakes): "Vhat! Dere vas no hundret-tollar-bill in der drawer? Four ten-tollar-bills missin'? Oh, mein sufferin' peoble! Dot feller was a hypnotister himself! Ikey, Ikey! purn dot pook!"
Black-and-white engraving depicting Jewish holiday rituals, including eating in a sukkah during Sukkot, a haircut during Lag BaOmer, providing treats to children for Simchat Torah, and kiddush levana on Rosh Chodesh. From Philologus hebræo-mixtus by Johannes Leusden, published Basileæ, apud E. & J.R. Thurnisios, fratres.
Black-and-white engraving depicting the Jewish rituals of a Sotah (woman suspected of adultery) undergoing the ordeal of bitter water, a burial, and a circumsision. From Philologus hebræo-mixtus by Johannes Leusden, published Basileæ, apud E. & J.R. Thurnisios, fratres.
Black-and-white engraving depicting Jewish holiday rituals, including lighting a menorah on Hanukkah, Purim festivities, mourning on Tisha B'Av, and the Yom Kippur ritual of malkot. From Philologus hebræo-mixtus by Johannes Leusden, published Basileæ, apud E. & J.R. Thurnisios, fratres.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the interior of a sukkah during the celebration of Sukkot. 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.
Print reproduction of a color lithograph depicting the exterior of a planned Jewish hospital to be built in Jersualem with funds bequeathed by Judah Touro, as well as a lithograp of plans for the hospital. Original lithographs by Vincent Brooks. Plans to build the proposed hospital were abandoned when the Rothschild family established a hospital in the city. Reproduction printed on the occasion of the 28th year of Israeli Independence and on the 200th year of American Independence, published Philadelphia: The Winchell Co.
Hand-colored engraving depicting the Judengasse in Augsburg. Engraving by Karl Remshard. Published Augsburg: Kaiserlich Franciscische Akademie der Freien Künste und Wissenschaften. From the series Collection des Prospects : Vue de la Ville Imperiale d'Augsbourg.
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 etching of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt am Main. Etching by Bertha Bagge. From Aus dem alten Frankfurt by Bertha Bagge, published Frankfurt am Main: Reitz & Köhler, 1891-1896.
Hand-colored etching depicting the vestments of a Jewish high priest. From Tableau historique des costumes, des moeurs et des usages des principaux peuples de l'antiquité et du moyen age, Volume 2, by Robert von Spalart, published Metz: Collignon.
Black-and-white lithograph depicting the interior of the original building of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston. From a painting by Solomon Nunes Carvalho. Lithograph printed Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen.
Black-and-white lithograph depicting the interior of the original building of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston. From a painting by Solomon Nunes Carvalho. Lithograph printed Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen.
Black-and-white wood engraving of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Wood engraving by Pierre Verdeil after Hippolyte Louis Emile Pauquet. Published in Les Français peints par eux-mêmes, Volume 3.
Hand-colored wood engraving of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Wood engraving by Pierre Verdeil after Hippolyte Louis Emile Pauquet. Published in Les Français peints par eux-mêmes, Volume 3.
Hand-colored engraving of a married Jewish woman from Algiers. Engraving by Adolphe Portier. From Musée cosmopolite, published Paris: Ancienne Mon Aubert.
Hand-colored engraving of a married Jewish woman from Algeria. Engraving by Adolphe Portier after François-Claudius Compte-Calix. From Musée cosmopolite, published Paris: Ancienne Mon Aubert.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of Sarah Lyon (1703-1807) of Ipswich, who lived to the age of 105. Engraving by Robert Roe after a painting by Walter Stephens Lethbridge.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the miter of a Jewish 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.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Moses and the Ten Commandments. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Explanation to the frontispiece of A new and universal history of the religious rites and ceremonies of all nations of the world by William Hurd, published London: Printed for A. Hogg.
Black-and-white engraving depicting King David. Engraving by Abram Rimini after a painting by Daniele Crespie. The text reads : "The Lord hath sought him a man after His own heart."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Jewish refugees from Morocco during the Spanish-Moroccan War. Published in the January 21, 1860, edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
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.
Color print reproduction of an illustration by Jaroslav Šetelík of the interior of the Old New Synagogue in Prague. From Praha by Jaroslav Šetelík, published Prague: Legiografie.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of journalist and editor Levy Emanuel Cohen. Engraving by Thomas Vernon after a painting by Edward Daniel Leahy. Published Brighton: Thomas Page.
Black-and-white steel engraved portrait of rabbi and scholar Moses Edrehi. Engraving by Robert Whitechurch. From History of the capital of Asia and the Turks : together with an account of the domestic manners of the Turks in Turkey, published Boston: Boston, Reprinted for I. Edrehi, 5618 (1858).
Black-and-white engraving depicting, above, Simon of Trent, whose disappearance and murder led to charges of blood libel against the Jewish community of Trent; below, an image of a Judensau (Jews' sow). This engraving is a copy of a wall painting on the bridge tower of Frankfurt am Main; the bridge was demolished in 1801. In German, the text reads : "Au weih Rabbi Anschl, au, au! Mausch, au weih, au, au! Sauff Mauschi, sauff die Milch! Friss du Rabbi den Dreck, es ist doch alle Zeit euer bestes Geschleck!" In English, the title reads : "In 1475 on Maundy Thursday, the child Simon, who was 2 years old, was murdered by the Jews." In English, the text reads : "Oy vey Rabbi Anschl, oy, oy! Mausch, oy vey, oy, oy! Drink Mauchi, drink the milk! Eat, Rabbi, this filth! That's your greatest delicacy!"
Black-and-white scale engraving of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin. The structure was originally conceived as a synagogue. From Atti e rassegna tecnica della Società degli ingegneri e degli architetti in Torino, 1875.
Color lithograph of the exterior of the Great Synagogue in Wilna (Vilnius). Lithograph by Alfred Holler. From Wilna : 12 farbige Bilder by Alfred Holler, published Wilna: Zeitung der 10. Armee.
Hand-colored lithograph depicting a service at the Tempio Italiano in the Cinque Scole of Rome. Lithograph by after Hieronymus Hess. Published Karlsruhe: J. Velten.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a watercolor by Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Published in the June 2, 1866, edition of L'Illustration, journal universel.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a watercolor by Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Published in the June 30, 1866, edition of L'Univers illustré.
Hand-colored engraving depicting a Jewish woman and a Jewish merchant from Algiers. Engraving by Andreas Geiger. From the series Costume Bild zur Theaterzeitung. Published Vienna: Burea der allgem. Theaterz.
Color lithograph including depictions of Jewish men, women, and children from Algiers. Lithograph by Friedrich Hottenroth. Printed Stuttgart: M. Seeger. From Trachten, Haus-, Feld- und Kriegsgeräthschaften der Völker alter und neuer Zeit, Volume 1, by Friedrich Hottenroth, published Stuttgart: Gustav Weise.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting Jewish musicians in Tlemcen. Engraving by Henri Théophile Hildibrand. From The Mediterranean illustrated by William Henry Davenport Adams, published London: T. Nelson and Sons.
Black-and-white lithographed portrait of Isaac Edrehi, son of rabbi and scholar Moses Edrehi. Lithograph printed Boston: J. H. Bufford. From History of the capital of Asia and the Turks : together with an account of the domestic manners of the Turks in Turkey, published Boston: Boston, Reprinted for I. Edrehi, 5618 (1858).