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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…
This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…
This illustration is from Franciscan monk Eugène Roger’s La terre saincte (The Holy Land), a comprehensive study of the Land of Israel which includes dozens of etchings depicting Jewish, Muslim, Druze…
Over its more than fifty-two years of publication, Mad Magazine skewered everyone from politicians to movie stars, with a particular dedication to rooting out hypocrisy. Here it spoofs its own genre…
This 1934 illustration of the Passover story of the four sons features a caricature of the “wicked” son dressed as Hitler.
L’il Abner, set in the fictional town of Dogpatch in Kentucky, presented a stereotyped view of the U.S. South. But its trenchant satire targeted political and social issues, and popular culture. Here…
This poster of the Soviet Jewry movement, which, from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s fought for the right of Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union, uses a hammer and sickle, a symbol of communism…
Al Hirschfeld was most famous for his caricatures of actors, musicians, and other figures from the arts and public life. He himself preferred to be known as a “characterist.” After the birth of his…
Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given superhuman strength by a magic potion prepared by…
A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…
