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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.
Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn, 1856
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This painting portrays an imagined meeting of Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), and the Swiss theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)…

Contributor:

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1856

Subjects:

Enlightenment, Philosophy, Leisure, Christian-Jewish relations, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of two men seated at a table with another man standing behind them, and woman in doorway carrying tray of tea.
Süss Oppenheimer, a Jewish Tale
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Chapter 19 When Süss returned to his prison cell, he found his uncle waiting for him. In tears he fell into the arms of the dignified old man and told him everything that had happened to him. Rabbi…

Contributor:

Marcus Lehmann

Places:

Mainz, Germany

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Conversion, Christian-Jewish relations, Prayer, Death, Sin

Categories:

Literature, Children & Young Adult Literature