Color postcard with a reproduction of an oil painting by Robert Guttmann depicting a beth hamidrash in Carpathian Ruthenia. The original painting is held at the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Color postcard with a reproduction of an oil painting by Robert Guttmann depicting a synagogue in Carpathian Ruthenia. The original painting is held at the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Color postcard with a reproduction of an oil painting by Robert Guttmann depicting a bar mitzvah in the synagogue. The original painting is held at the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Black-and-white engravings depicting a Jewish funeral, above, and a Jewish burial, below. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. 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.
Black-and-white engravings depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, above, and Yom Kippur at the Ashkenazi Obbene Shul in Amsterdam, below. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. 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.
Black-and-white engravings depicting a marriage ceremony of Portuguese Jews, above, and Ashkenazi Jews, below, in Amsterdam. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. 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.
Color postcard depicting the celebration of Shavuot in the synagogue. The text reads : "The generations will be redeemed only through the merit of the righteous women of each generation." Original illustration by S. Seeberger.
Postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph Anniversaire by Alphonse Lévy, which shows an elderly Jewish man at his wife's grave on the anniversary of her death.
Postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph La Cour de la Synagogue pendant le Kippour by Alphonse Lévy, which shows the court of the synagogue during Yom Kippur.
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.
