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Jew in the Holy Land
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This illustration is from Franciscan monk Eugène Roger’s La terre saincte (The Holy Land), a comprehensive study of the Land of Israel which includes dozens of etchings depicting Jewish, Muslim, Druze…

Contributor:

Eugène Roger

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1646

Subjects:

Print, Jewish identity, Israel/Israelis, Ethnography

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of man in hat stepping with one arm outstretched and the other grasping the hem of his robes with French heading.
Nijinsky as the Faun
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The cover of the theater program for the Ballets Russes’ seventh season is illustrated with an image of Vaslav Nijinsky wearing a costume designed by Léon Bakst for the ballet L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune…

Contributor:

Léon Bakst

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Performing arts, Dance, Aesthetics, Modernism

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Painting
Book cover with illustration of figure in graceful position and deer-like legs next to long ribbon.
Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover
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Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given superhuman strength by a magic potion prepared by…

Contributor:

René Goscinny

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1959

Subjects:

Comics, Print, Humor

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Cartooning & graphic art
Comic strip featuring a title and heading across the top in French, and eight panels of comics below. The comics portray warriors, a man against several opponents, two warriors, a stylized map of France, a map of enemy tents, a warrior on a chair interrupted by a boy, two warriors talking, and four warriors talking while hiding behind a tree.
Familiar Jewish Scenes
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A Suitor Calls with the Matchmaker. Illustration from Scènes familiales juives (Familiar Jewish Scenes), Alphonse Lévy’s book of caricatures of Alsatian rural Jewish life.

Contributor:

Alphonse Lévy

Places:

Alsace, France

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Marriage, Family, Betrothal, Community

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Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of women seated in front of a man as two men spy on the scene from behind a door.
“Le people juif . . . sur de lui-même et dominateur . . .” (“The Jews, a People Sure of Itself and Domineering, . . .” Charles de Gaulle)
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Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…

Contributor:

Tim (Louis Mitelberg)

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Date:

1967

Subjects:

Comics, Politics, Satire, Holocaust, War

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Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of full body profile of man behind barbed wire with foot propped on wire, dressed in prisoner uniform with Star of David badge on breast and right hand tucked in uniform.