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Topographic Map of the city of Caracas
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Ángel Jacob Jesurún’s topographical map of Caracas, with its geometric grid, is the first map after Venezuela’s independence to be drawn and printed by a native of the city. After decades of war and…

Contributor:

Ángel Jacob Jesurún

Places:

Caracas, Venezuela

Date:

1843

Subjects:

Cities, Colonialism, Nationalism, Christian-Jewish relations, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Architecture
Topographic map, with place names in columns on left and right side and Spanish text below.
Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…

Contributor:

Lodovico Furlanetto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1729

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Architecture
Small image of topographical cityscape.
Eva Frank’s house in Offenbach during the visit of Tsar Alexander I, November 1813
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Jacob (Jakob) Frank (ca. 1726–1791) was a controversial and charismatic messianic figure who attracted a significant Jewish following in Eastern Europe. After his death, his daughter Eva Frank (1754…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Offenbach, German Confederation (Offenbach, Germany)

Date:

1813

Subjects:

Cities, Christian-Jewish relations, Monarchy, Women, Messianism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Architecture
Image of house with many windows surrounded by soldiers on horseback and people.
The Largest Mill in the Orient (Postcard)
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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…

Contributor:

Vitaliano Poselli

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

ca. 1900–1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardi, Christian-Jewish relations, Cities, Labor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Large symmetrical, rectangular building next to body of water.