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The press of Solomon Proops was one of the most prolific and well-known Hebrew presses in eighteenth-century Europe. The printer’s mark used by Proops (which does not appear on all his works) depicts…
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Solomon Proops
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730
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The de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In the Iberian Peninsula, members of the family converted to Christianity at the end of the…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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A depiction of a Jew from Lorraine, engraved by Sébastien Leclerc in Paris. The antisemitic inscription, which alludes to the Jewish man having acquired wealth by deceptive means, is a rhymed couplet…
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Sébastien Leclerc
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1664