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1. [Circumsicion]

Description:: 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.

2. The Habdalah

Description:: 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.

3. [Simchat Torah]

[Simchat Torah]

Description:: Hand-colored engraving depicting the celebration of Simchat Torah by the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart.

4. The Priests descendants of Aaron giving ye Benediction to the People

The Priests descendants of Aaron giving ye Benediction to the People

Description:: Black-and-white engravings depicting the priestly blessing at the Portuguese Synagogue in the Hague. Engraving after Bernard Picart.

5. [Sukkot]

Description:: Black-and-white engravings depicting Sukkot at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, above, and Portuguese Jews in a sukkah during Sukkot, below. Engraving after Bernard Picart.

6. Judenhochzeit

Description:: Color lithographic print depicting a Jewish marriage ceremony. Lithograph printed by Reiffenstein & Rösch.

7. Die Brautschau

Description:: Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Hermann Junker's painting Die Brautschau.

8. Jüdisches Leichenbegängnis in Galizien

Jüdisches Leichenbegängnis in Galizien

Description:: Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting a Jewish funeral in Galicia. Original illustration by Paul Adolphe Kauffmann.

9. [Funeral, burial]

[Funeral, burial]

Description:: Black-and-white engravings depicting a Jewish funeral, above, and a Jewish burial, below. After an engraving by Bernard Picart.

10. [Circumsicion]

Description:: Black-and-white engraving depicting a Jewish circumcision.