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Response to a Writer’s Letter in Jutrzenka, January 3, 1862
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Correspondence Warsaw, 15 December 1861 Mr. Medard’s reply to our letter dated 15 November has not, in the least, surprised us; we had indeed expected it, exactly in the form in which it is composed…

Contributor:

Al. K.

Places:

Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1862

Subjects:

Economic life, Humor, Assimilation, Politics, Antisemitism

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
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.
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.