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Jewish Clothing from Fürth
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In 1705, the Nuremberg artist, Johannes Alexander Böner, published a slim volume about Fürth, Germany, containing several copper-engravings dealing with the life of Jews in the city. This print…

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Johannes Alexander Böner

Places:

Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)

Date:

1705

Subjects:

Print, Cities, Dress, Christian-Jewish relations, Ethnography

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of six people wearing various clothing styles, including ruffs, dresses, and cloaks.
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

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Print & book culture
Engraved print of people fighting in chaotic city street.
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…

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Behrend Lehmann

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Date:

1697–99

Subjects:

Print, Christian-Jewish relations, Ashkenazi, Prayer & liturgy

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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.
Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…

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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan

Places:

Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)

Date:

Late 14th to early 15th Century

Subjects:

Print, Theology, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics, Apostasy

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Printed page with Hebrew text in center under archway, flanked by two figures in robes, with a figure on top amid landscape background, and two figures below text under stone archway.
Jewish Man and Woman from Frankfurt
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The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…

Contributor:

Caspar Luyken

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1703

Subjects:

Print, Cities, Dress, Christian-Jewish relations, Ethnography

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print of man in cloak, hat, lace collar, and high boots, and woman dressed in cloak, winged bonnet, ruff collar, full skirt, and bodice, holding a large purse, with city landscape in the background.