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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.
Ketav yosher (Epistle of Justice)
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Has he had the temerity to speak perversely against the foundations of the faith and of the Torah, and mocked the words of our sages of blessed memory recorded in the Mishnah and the Gemara, or has he…

Contributor:

Saul Berlin

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1784

Subjects:

Polemics, Holidays, Ritual object, Enlightenment, Satire

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Humor & Satire, Literature
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.
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Contributor:

Max Jungmann

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Food and drink, Kashrut, Humor, Satire, Reform Judaism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Advertisements
Printed page with Yiddish text and small drawing of pig.