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The Shohet (from “Had Gadya”)
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.

Contributor:

Menachem Birnbaum

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Animals, Violence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Illustration of man in a bloody apron holding a bloody knife as he begins to slaughter a large animal.
Chantilly Haggadah
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This Haggadah was produced in the city of Candia (now Heraklion), on the island of Crete, which was at the time under Venetian rule. The Haggadah follows the Passover seder according to the Romaniote…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1500–1549

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Violence, Slavery

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Literature
Manuscript page with Hebrew text of illustrations of figures outside a castle on bottom and a man and woman separated by sword on the right.
Plunder of the Ghetto Following the Fettmilch Riots against the Jews of Frankfurt am Main Plunder of the Ghetto
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In August 1614, a gingerbread baker named Vincenz Fettmilch (d. 1616) led a mob that rampaged through the Judengasse (Jews’ street) in Frankfurt am Main, injuring and killing two or three Jews…

Contributor:

Matthäus Merian

Places:

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

Date:

1628

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Violence

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Engraved print of people fighting in chaotic city street.