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Portrait of Jacob Ries
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Jacob Ries (1660–1751) of Prague first worked as a badchan (jester) for weddings. In 1710, he became court jester in Vienna under Charles VI. The artist of this portrait of Ries is not known. It…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1710

Subjects:

Portrait, Class, Monarchy, Profession, Humor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of a man of short stature with long wavy hair and a hat, holding a cane in right hand with left hand on hip, with figures in background and Hebrew and German writing above and below picture.
Utter Chaos
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These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right. “Sorry—What do you have?” “Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…

Contributor:

Sammy Gronemann

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Humor, Pogroms, Antisemitism, Christian-Jewish relations, Jewish identity

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Humor & Satire