Black-and-white woodcut and text from Das Ständebuch (The Book of Trades) with text by Hans Sachs and illustrations by Jost Amman. The book describes trades practiced in 16th-century Nuremberg. In German, the text reads : "Bin nicht vmb sonst ein Jüd genannt / Ich leih nur halb Gelt an ein Pfandt / Löst mans nit zu gesetztem Ziel / So gilt es mir dennoch so viel / Darmit verderb ich den loßn hauffn / Der nur wil Feyern / Fressn vnd Sauffn / Doch nimpt mein Handel gar nit ab / Weil ich meins gleich viel Brüder hab." In English, the text reads : "I'm called a Jew because, in dearth, / Pledge I pawn at half its worth; / If not redeemed on time, it will / Make my profits higher still. / I thus destroy all carless folk, / While they eat and drink and joke. / My business never suffers, for / I have many brothers more."
Caricature on the subject of Jewish emanicipation. In German, the text reads : "Du machst mit deinen Geld hienieden. / Ganz nach Gefallen Krieg und Frieden. / Zum Dank sind diese grosse Orden. / Dir allgemach zutheil geworden. / Zwar darf ich das Kreuz nicht leiden. / Doch golden nehm' ich's an mit Freuden. / Wie Meyer, Hirsch und Löwe schon. / Gold bringt zum Ruhm und hohe Ehre. / Hoch stehe ich auf goldne Heere. / Und hoff' Emancipation." In English, the text reads : "You put your money beneath you. / All of it after the beneficial war and peace. / Thank God these are the largest orders. / The majority became a part of it. / Even though I am not allowed to suffer the cross. / Still, golden I'll take it on with friends. / Like Meyer, Hirsch, and Löwe already. / Gold brings glory and high honors. / I stand up high on golden armies. / And hope for emancipation." Published Leipzig: Luis Rocca.
Black-and-white engraving depicting, above, Simon of Trent, whose disappearance and murder led to charges of blood libel against the Jewish community of Trent; below, an image of a Judensau (Jews' sow). This engraving is a copy of a wall painting on the bridge tower of Frankfurt am Main; the bridge was demolished in 1801. In German, the text reads : "Au weih Rabbi Anschl, au, au! Mausch, au weih, au, au! Sauff Mauschi, sauff die Milch! Friss du Rabbi den Dreck, es ist doch alle Zeit euer bestes Geschleck!" In English, the title reads : "In 1475 on Maundy Thursday, the child Simon, who was 2 years old, was murdered by the Jews." In English, the text reads : "Oy vey Rabbi Anschl, oy, oy! Mausch, oy vey, oy, oy! Drink Mauchi, drink the milk! Eat, Rabbi, this filth! That's your greatest delicacy!"
Engraving and text from Darstellungen menschlicher Narrheiten (Representations of human follies). In German, the text reads : "Was wolt Ihr Juden bey den Sachen, / soll man euch auch zu Narren machen. / Sie wollen einen Wipper krönen. / Der sich mit ihnen wird versöhnen. / Weil er so viel Profit genomen, / als feinen Juden zu gekomen." In English, the text reads : "What do you Jews want by those things, should you all be made into fools as well. / They want to crown a "Wipper," / Who will reconcile with them. / Because he took so much profit, that he became a well off Jew." This engraving is part of a series satirizing the foolish schemes people believed during the economic crisis in the early 17th century. The title "Der Kipp-und Wipper-Narr" refers to the phrase used to describe this period of hyperinflation (Kipper- und Wipperzeit), literally meaning to "Tipper and See-saw," which refers to the unstable state of the economy.
Black-and-white lithographed caricature depicting stockjobbers hoping to catch inside news after the first signs of a war in Italy appear in the newspaper. Lithograph by Destouches after a caricature by Honoré Daumier. Plate 10 of the series Actualités, published in the February 19, 1859, edition of Le Charivari.
In French, the text reads :
--Ne craignez rien ......, nous n'aurons pas la guerre ! ....
--Quelles preuves pouvez vous me donner?....
--Comment des preuves.... j'en ai mille.... tenez, mon cher.... allez place de la concorde...., dirigez vous du côté du quai et vous verrez qu'on n'arme seulement pas la frégate-école!.... In English, the text reads :
--Don't' you worry, there will be no war!
--What proof do you have for that?
--What do you mean proof.... there are thousands... for example... you go down to Place de la Concorde... in direction of the Quai and you will note that not even the frigate-school has been called to arms!
Hand-colored engraivng with two scenes: now and then. In German, the text reads : Von jetzt: --"Herr Minister ich wünsche eine Anstellung im Ministerium!" --"Ist mir unendlich leid, aber sie sind bereits alle vergeben."--" So überlassen Sie mir die Ihrige!" --"Ach wollen sie gefälligst bedenken, dass die selber erst eine von Gestern ist!" Und damahls: --"Eure Excelenz dürfte ich in aller Unterthänigkeit zu hoffen wagen?!" --"Mir leid--gute Conduit--wie gesagt--noch zu jung--Adieu!" --"Dürfte ich vielleicht bei der nächsten--Vorrükung?!" --"Adieu!" In English, the text reads : From now: --"Mr. Minister, I wish to have a position in the Ministry!" --"I am terribly sorry, but all of the position have already been awarded."--" So leave me your own!" --"Oh, do you really think, that even that one is one of the past!" And back then: --"Your excellency, may I, with great obedience, dare to hope?!" --"My apologies--good conduit--as I said---still too young--Goodbye!" --"May I, perhaps by the next--Displacement?!" --"Goodbye!" Engraving by Andreas Geiger.
Satirical scene etched in red depicting four members of the committee around a treasure chest, which is empty of coins and occupied by a grinning demon. The Secretary holds upside down an empty bag inscribed "ils ont emigrè" ("they have emigrated"). One of the committee members takes from a Jew (at left) a dish on which a little demon is excreting coins. On the right, a large cupboard with packages labeled Recepissen (receipts) and Assignats (paper money issued during the French Revolution) falls forward on to the backs of two committee members, including the president of the Committee of Accounts. The Jew sells a figure which he assures the purchaser will, if nourished with the tears of the Orangists, give fifty ducats daily. This is better than the piles of assignats which threaten ruin. Territories conquered by France during the Revolution were forced to take assignats from French soldiers and to change them for receipts. Etching by William Humphrey after a caricature by David Hess. From Hollandia regenerata by David Hess.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 6, No. 23. In German, the text reads : --"So schwör ich, was geschrieben hat der Medakdek, hat er gesagt ganz vor mir: Du bist mein Tagsgedanke und mein Traum: ich denke immer an Dir Sahrchen!" --"Mach mir kahn Stuss, kahn Geschnuss! Was werste denken uf der Börsch, wannste kaafst Lombarden? Denkste an mir, waass Gott da werste beschummelt! --"Sey still, mein Herzche! Uf der Börsch u. in's Comtowahr denk ich ans Geschäftche." In English, the text reads : --"I swear, what the Medakdek wrote, he said before me whole : You are my daily thought and my dream: I always think of you, dear Sarah! --"Don't give me that rubbish, no stories! What do you think of when you're at the stock exchange, when you're buying shares? Do you think of me, God knows you would have been cheated!" --"Be quiet, my darling! At the Stock Exchange and in the accounts I think of business."
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 7, No. 31. In German, the text reads : --Gerichtsvollzieher: "Herr Hirsch treten Sie ein, nehmen Sie das Ihnen zuerkannte Pferd in Empfang - Sie stehen sich von allen Gläubigern am Besten." --Hirsch: "Wai - was seh ich - der Gaul is capot, is das mei Deckung für 800 Thalersch?" --Stalljung: ""Das hab' ich mir glaich gedacht, dass das arme Thier krepiert wird sai - seit 4 Wochen konnt ich ihm kai Futter bringe - weil der Stall von Gerichtswegen versiegelt war." In English, the text reads : --Bailiff: "Enter, Mr. Hirsch, take in the horse you were awarded. You are the top of the list of creditors." --Hirsch: "Oh - what am I seeing - the horse is ruined, is this my cover for 800 thalers?" --Stable boy: "That's the same thought I had, that the poor animal will die - for four weeks I could bring him no food - because the stable was sealed by the court."
Caricature by Emil Flohri published in Judge. The associated text reads : "The convention and fair which the federation of Jewish farmers held recently in New York, at the Educational Alliance, demonstrated that the Jew's entrance into the agricultural field has been marked by signal success. Ten years ago there were, perhaps, less than a hundred Jewish farmers scattered across the country. They produced no more than the bare rations of subsistence, living each day from hand to mouth, and trusting to the good graces of fortune for their continued support rather than to their own knowledge of the rules of farming. Today there are more than five thousand of them in the United States alone. The European figures run into tens of thousands. Each year this number increases. Men and women from the Ghettos of the big cities are beginning to appreciate the advantages of the independence of the farmer's life. They see that they can make a better living at agriculture than at their present occupations. They are combining with an increased knowledge of scientific farming a desire to succeed at this, their first productive venture."
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