Caricature. In German, the text reads : --"Gott - Schmul - bist de aach gelade zum reichen Salomon - und hast nich emal e reines Hemd an?" --"Du ja auch nich - !" --"Weßt De was, zieh Du mein Hemd an - und ich Dains, so haben wir doch Baide die Wäsche gewechselt!" In English, the text reads : --"Oh, God - Schmul - you're also invited to rich Salomon's -- and don't even have a clean shirt on?" --"You don't either - !" --"You know what, you put my shirt on - and I'll put on yours, that way it'll look like we both just mixed up the laundry!"
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 a circumcision performed by a Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam, above, and pidyon haben (redemption of the first-born son), 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.
Caricature. In German, the text reads : --"Mai - höre, Memmelchen! Hab' ich doch gemacht alle Papierche zu baarem Gold und wollt' es wegschicken, weil es nicht mehr sicher ist hier - aber sie lassens nicht mehr hinaus, und wenn sie uns hier todtschlagen kriegen se unser Geld ach noch - das bringt mich um." In English, the text reads : "Dear mother, isten to me! I had all of the paper money turned into bars of gold and wanted to send it away, because it isn't safe here anymore - but they are not letting any more out, and if they kill us here, they will get our money also - that kills me."
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of Ruth Alexandrovich. The postcard is pre-addressed to "Procurator-General R. A. Rudenko" and includes a printed message: "24-year-old Ruth Alexandrovich is a heroine of the Jewish Resistance in Riga. On October 7, 1970--a week before her wedding the KGB took her. Sensing impending arrest, she wrote, '...I shall never betray my much suffering people. I shall never betray my most cherished dream to live, work and die in Israel.' Her fiance, Isay Averbuch, wrote, 'I am ready to testify that she has not committed a single violation of the laws.' Her mother, Rivka Alexandrovich pleads, 'Save my daughter.'"
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of Ruth Alexandrovich. The postcard is pre-addressed to "Procurator-General R. A. Rudenko" and includes a printed message: "24-year-old Ruth Alexandrovich was taken by the KGB on October 7, 1970--a week before her wedding date. Sensing impending arrest, she wrote, '...I shall never betray my much suffering people. I shall never betray my most cherished dream--to live, work and die in Israel.' Her fiance, Isay Averbuch, wrote, 'I am ready to testify that she has not committed a single violation of the laws.' Almost 40 other Jews, equally innocent of any violation of laws, are being kept in prison. Release the Jewish political prisoners."
Engraving and text from Darstellungen menschlicher Narrheiten (Representations of human follies). In German, the text reads : "Der Juden ihr Betrug und List. / Beӱ weiten nicht zulänglich ist, / Partiten so ich mit Manier. / Kan spielen hurtig dort und hier. / Ja, ja, die Mauschel lassen dir, / Das Præ du sehr verschmiktes Thier." In English the text reads : "The Jews' betrayals and tricks. / Far and wide it is inadequate, / To make false coins in such a manner. / I can play daily here and there. / Yes, yes, the Mauschel let you. / That's the priority you bejeweled animal." This engraving is part of a series satirizing the foolish schemes people believed during the economic crisis in the early 17th century.
Hand-colored etching of a scene from Karl Borromäus Alexander Sessa's satirical play "Unser Verkehr" (The Company We Keep). In German, the text reads : "Gaih! Gaih! - Los dich treten von de Leut, los dich werfen aus de Stuben, los dich verklagen bei de Gericht, los dich hetzen ins Hundeloch, los dich binden mit Stricke und Ketten, los dich martern halb taudt! Aber du must doch werden reich!" In English, the text reads : "Go! Go! Let yourself be stepped on by people, let yourself be thrown out of rooms, let yourself be denounced to the courts, let yourself be pushed into kennels, let yourself be bound with cords and chains, let yourself be martyred half to death! But you must become rich!"
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in Puck. In German, the caption reads : "Ein Mittel weiß ich, wunderbar, das führt zum ew'gen Frieden, - Ein Austausch ist's: Victoria, sie nimmt die armen Jüden, - Und über Irland's Söhne darf der Russen Czar gebieten, - Als Straßenkehrer nehmen wir den Mann vom sonn'gen Süden. - Auf diese Weise wird der Welt die Ruhe bald beschieden." The text proposes an exchange of emigrants. Under Quotations: "England - Jews in demand." The caricature depicts Queen Victoria taking two Jews under her arms.
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