Postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph La Juive à la fenêtre le samedi by Alphonse Lévy, which shows a Jewish woman looking out her window on the Sabbath.
Postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph La Juive à la fenêtre le samedi by Alphonse Lévy, which shows a Jewish woman looking out her window on the Sabbath.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting Torah study on the Sabbath. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "The Sabbath holiday meal is done / All is light and pure / Sweet words of Torah resound / And fill the air all around."
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the ceremony of Havdalah. Original illustration from the article "The Jews in New York--II" by Richard Wheatley, published in the February 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph Les Vermicelles by Alphonse Lévy, showing a housewife preparing frimsel (egg noodles) for the Sabbath.
Postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph La Bénédiction des lumières le vendredi soir à l'entrée du sabbat by Alphonse Lévy, which shows the blessing of the Sabbath lamp.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a woman fulfilling the three mitzvot (commandments) for Jewish women: niddah (family purity), nerot (lighting of candles), and challah (separating a portion of dough). Frontispiece to Seder ha-tefilot : mi-kol ha-shanah ʻim perush bi-leshon Ashkenaz, published Amsterdam: Moshe ben Avraham Mendes Ḳoṭinyo.
Black-and-white engraving with three scenes: a Jewish circumcision (at left), Moses and The Ten Commandments (center), and lighting the Sabbath lamp (right). Engraving by François Morellon La Cave. From Naaukeurige beschryving der uitwendige godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt, Volume 1, by Bernard Picart, translated by Abraham Moubach, published: Rotterdam, Amsterdam & Den Haag: Uytwerf, Beman en Van der Kloot, 1727-38.
Black-and-white engraving depicting Jewish ritual objects. Engraving by Bernard Picart. From Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses, Volume 1, published Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard, 1723-1737.
Black-and-white engraving depicting the Sabbath at home and in the synagogue. Engraving by Johann Georg Puschner. From Jüdisches Ceremoniel, first published by Paul Christian Kirchner in 1717, edited and reissued by the Christian Hebraist Sebastian Jugendres in 1724, published Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath.
Black-and-white wood engraving accompanying the article The Festival of the Jewish Sabbath by Charles Hole, published in the April 1, 1870, edition of The Sunday Magazine.