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1. Habit of a Polish Jewess in 1766 / Femme Juive Polonoise

Date:
1757 and 1772
Description:
Black-and-white etching of a Jewish woman from Poland in 1766. Etching by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. From A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern, published London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-1772.

2. Habit of a Polish Jew in 1768 / Juif Polanais

Date:
1757 and 1772
Description:
Black-and-white etching of a Jewish man from Poland in 1768. Etching by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. From A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern, published London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-1772.

3. Habit of a Polish Jew in 1768 / Juif Polanais

Date:
1757 and 1772
Description:
Hand-colored etching of a Jewish man from Poland in 1768. Etching by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. From A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern, published London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-1772.

4. Mortre Mendel Ajzensztark, circa 1917

Date:
1910-1919
Description:
This circa 1917 photograph was taken in Poland and shows Mortre Mendel Ajzensztark, Francine's father, while he was in the Polish army. Once in France, he changed his name to Maurice.

5. Polish Jews driving to market : a sketch on the Polish Russian frontier

Date:
1880
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Polish Jews in Russia. The associated article reads : "A sketch by our artist in Russia, or rather on the borders of Russian Poland, shows a two-horse cart of rustic apperance, closely packed with eager merchants of country wares and commodities for the use of the peasantry, one and all belonging to the Hebrew race, who carry on most of the inland trade in those parts of the Czar's dominions. They are travelling to the next market-town, where they will buy and sell to a considerable profit, as the Jews never fail to do in Russia, if in any country in the world." Published in the March 27, 1880, edition of The Illustrated London News.

6. Abiti degli Ebrei

Date:
1831
Description:
Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish man and woman from Poland. Engraving by Antonio Verico after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. From Storia della Polonia : fino agli ultimi tempi by Bernard Zaydler, published Firenze: V. Batelli.

7. Podlasianie-Rusini / Podlaquiens d'origine russienne / Podlachier russinischer Abkunft / Podlashian peasants of Rushinian origin

Date:
1841
Description:
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.

8. Polish Jew at his devotions

Date:
1855
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish man from Poland at prayer. From An illustrated description of the Russian empire by Robert Sears.

9. Volkstrachten. Zweiter Bogen.

Date:
1863
Description:
Print Nro. 353 of the series Münchener Bilderbogen, published Munich: Verlag Braun & Schneider. Illustrations by Ernst Küster. The print includes a depiction of a Jew from Poland.

10. Żyd powraiacy z Buznicy / Juif revenant de la Synagogue

Date:
1817
Description:
Hand-colored aquatint of a Jewish man from Poland. Engraving by Philibert-Louis Debucourt after a drawing by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine. From Zbiór rozmaitych stroiów polskich / Costumes polonais.

11. Juifs polonais célébrant le Grand Pardon

Date:
1864
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Jews from Poland in the synagogue on Yom Kippur. After a drawing by Wilhelm August Stryowski. Published in the October 15, 1864, edition of L'Univers illustré.

12. Le Chasside et sa femme

Date:
1846
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Hasidic man from Poland and his wife. From Les Israélites de Pologne by Léon Hollaenderski.

13. Juifs de Pologne

Date:
1812
Description:
Black-and-white lithograph depicting a group of Jewish peddlers from Poland showing their wares to two approaching Cossacks. Lithograph by Godefroy Engelmann after Louis-Albert-Ghislain Bacler d'Albe.

14. [Habillement des polonais]

Date:
1827
Description:
Hand-colored engraving depicting people from Poland, including a Jewish man. Engraving by Angelo Biasioli after Giuseppe Bramati. 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, Europe, Volume 6, by Giulio Ferrario, published Milan: De l'imprimerie de l'editeur, 1815-1829.

15. Vestire dei Polacchi

Date:
1832
Description:
Black-and-white engraving depicting people from Poland, including a Jewish man. Engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso. From Il costume antico e moderno, ovvero storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni, Europe, Volume 8, by Giulio Ferrario, published Torino: Alessandro Fontana, 1829-1833.

18. Dzieci źydowskie / Enfans juifs

Date:
1817
Description:
Hand-colored aquatint of Jewish children from Poland. Engraving by Philibert-Louis Debucourt after a drawing by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine. From Zbiór rozmaitych stroiów polskich / Costumes polonais.

19. Ein Polnischer Jud

Date:
1703
Description:
Black-and-white engraving of a Jewish man from Poland. Engraving by Christoph Weigel after Caspar Luyken. From Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria by Abraham a Sancta Clara, published Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel.

20. Żidowka polska / Femme juive

Date:
1817
Description:
Hand-colored aquatint of a Jewish woman from Poland. Engraving by Philibert-Louis Debucourt after a drawing by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine. From Zbiór rozmaitych stroiów polskich / Costumes polonais.