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A Woman Drawing Water from a Well
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1619–1624

Subjects:

Women, Agriculture, Profession, Family, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with illustration of woman drawing water from a well as another individual stands behind her with a pitcher of water on head, and Hebrew text above.
The Hanging of Jud Süss
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…

Contributor:

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot, Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt

Places:

Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)

Date:

1738

Subjects:

Art, Print, Crime, Death, Antisemitism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print in two panels, with miniature portraits of two men at top of page, and German text below each panel: the top panel of procession of many people through city square, and the bottom panel of large crowd of people outdoors around a gallows on a tower.
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.
The Reformed Hasid
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“Before and After the Reform.” Cartoon from Der schlemiel: Illustriertes jüdisches Blatt für Humor und Satire lampooning the transformation of a Hasidic Jew into a Reformed Jew.

Contributor:

Max Jungmann

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Hasidism, Assimilation, Humor, Christian-Jewish relations, Satire

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Humor & Satire
Page with German text across top and bottom, with two nearly identical figures in center, with the one on the left bearded and in prayer garment and hat, and the one on the right with moustache and suit.
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.
Darwinian
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The evolution of the Hanukkah candelabra of the Pinne (Pniewy, Poland, near Posen) goatskin dealer Cohn into the Christmas tree of Conrad the businessman on Tiergartenstrasse (Berlin W.), satirizes…

Contributor:

Max Jungmann

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1904

Subjects:

Humor, Satire, Assimilation, Interfaith relations, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Four images of trees resembling candelabra and then a fir tree, with German text above and below.
Pre-Yom Kippur Customs
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This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…

Contributor:

Johannes Pfefferkorn

Places:

Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)

Date:

1508

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print image of two rows of people in front of river with fish in it.
Talmud
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The twelve-volume “Bermann Talmud'' was financed by the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (Issachar Bermann Segal), printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, by Michael Gottschalk, and published by John…

Contributor:

Behrend Lehmann

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Date:

1697–99

Subjects:

Print, Christian-Jewish relations, Ashkenazi, Prayer

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew text in circular frame and images of four figures around central text: a man with turban, frond, and censer on left, a man with staff and tablets on right, a king on bottom left, and a man playing harp on bottom right, and animal next to pitcher on top of page.
Illustration of the (Aristotelian) Cosmos
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This illustration of the (Aristotelian) cosmos appears in an eighteenth-century manuscript of Neḥmad ve-na‘im (Nice and Pleasant), David Ganz’s posthumously published book on astronomy.

Contributor:

David Ganz

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Astronomy, Astrology, Cosmology, Illuminated manuscripts, Scholarship

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Astronomy, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page of concentric circles with Hebrew words and stars in the outer circles, and Hebrew text on top and bottom of page.
‘Evronot Manuscript (Rules for Calculation of the Calendar)
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

Contributor:

Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen, Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1624

Subjects:

Calendar, Time, Math, Illuminated manuscripts, Dress

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with a grid of Hebrew letters and words set within two domed columns with flags, with image of naked man and woman next to tree between the columns at the top of the page, and man holding scales in middle of page.