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Synagogue Service for the New Year
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This illustration depicting Rosh Hashanah services in a synagogue appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to Christianity…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Synagogue, Prayer, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print engraving of large group of people in room with vaulted ceiling, raised platform on left side, open Torah ark, and balcony.
Preparing for Passover
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This illustration depicting Jews baking matzah and cleaning the house for Passover appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Food and drink, Family, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Food & drink
Print engraving of scenes indoors and outdoors of people cooking in kitchen, cleaning, using oven, and gathering wheat.
Jewish Betrothal Ceremony
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This illustration depicting a Jewish betrothal ceremony appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to Christianity. The first…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Synagogue, Ethnography, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving with groups of people in room talking, with open door to another room in background.
Marriage Ceremony
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This illustration depicting a Jewish wedding taking place under a huppah (wedding canopy) near a synagogue appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Women, Dress, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving of crowd of people outside of building gathered around couple under wedding canopy.
Sukkot
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This illustration depicting different types of sukkahs on the holiday of Sukkot appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Ritual & observance, Food and drink, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print of several tabernacles with people inside in the foreground and a bonfire in the background.
Juedisches Ceremonial (Jewish Ceremony): Death and Mourning
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This illustration depicting Jewish death and mourning rituals (a sick man on his deathbed, a body laid out for burial, and a funeral procession) appeared in the book, Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Mourning, Ritual & observance, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.