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Portrait of Jud Süss
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by Oppenheimer…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

After 1738

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Antisemitism, Profession, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Portrait print of man in curly wig and jacket with German caption and small drawing of gallows below portrait.
Jewish Funeral in Ouderkerk
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This etching depicts a body being brought for burial in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk, the oldest Jewish cemetery (est. 1614) in the Netherlands, located on the Amstel River.

Contributor:

Romeyn de Hooghe

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1675–ca. 1695

Subjects:

Print, Cemetery, Burial, Ritual & observance, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Print engraving of people on boat docking at a graveyard and lifting out a tomb.
The Hanging of Jud Süss
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…

Contributor:

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot, Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt

Places:

Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)

Date:

1738

Subjects:

Art, Print, Crime, Death, Antisemitism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print in two panels, with miniature portraits of two men at top of page, and German text below each panel: the top panel of procession of many people through city square, and the bottom panel of large crowd of people outdoors around a gallows on a tower.