Postcard with a reproduction of the oil painting The Praying Jew (Rabbi of Vitebsk) by Marc Chagall. The original painting is held in the Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Postcard with a reproduction of the oil painting The Praying Jew (The Rabbi of Vitebsk) by Marc Chagall. The original painting is held in the Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Black-and-white engraving depicting the tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries) used during prayer. 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.
Postcard with a reproduction of the lithography Misrach by Alphonse Lévy, which shows a Jew wrapped in a tallit (prayer shawl) facing east while praying.
Postcard with a reproduction of the lithograph Misrach by Alphonse Lévy, which shows a Jew wrapped in a tallit (prayer shawl) facing east while praying.
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.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a rabbi with tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries). Engraving by R. Young. From The faiths of the world : an account of all religions and religious sects, their doctrines, rites, ceremonies, and customs. Compiled from the latest and best authorities... by James Gardner, published London: A. Fullarton & Co.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a rabbi with tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries). Frontispiece to Modern Judaism : or, A brief account of the opinions, traditions, rites, and ceremonies of the Jews in modern times by John Allen, published London: Printed for T. Hamilton, and Oliphant, Waugh and Innes.
Black-and-white lithograph of a Jewish man from Russia at prayer. Lithograph printed by Imprimerie Lemercier after a drawing by Vasily Fiodorovitch (Georg Wilhelm) Timm. From Costumes russes, published by Daziaro, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Black-and-white offset reproduction depicting the use of tefillin during prayer. From A sketch of the history of Judaism and Christianity in the light of modern research and criticism by George Thomas Bettany.
Color print reproduction of the painting Two Rabbis Praying by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
Print reproduction of the oil painting The Praying Jew (The Rabbi of Vitebsk) by Marc Chagall. The original painting is held in the Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Black-and-white photograph of a Jewish man from North Africa. The caption on the back of the photograph reads: "There are many Orthodox Jews in North Africa, descendants of ancestors who have probably lived there since Emperor Hadrian banished the Jews from Rome."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the recitation of Uva letzion, the closing prayer of the weekday morning service. With text of Psalm 145:18 above : "The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him."