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A Jewish Policeman
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The photomontages that Benor-Kalter began to make in the 1930s were a departure from his earlier straightforward style and allowed him to use photography to create visual metaphors. Here, a…

Contributor:

Jacob Benor-Kalter

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1929–1939

Subjects:

Photography, Print, Ecology, Modernity, Profession

Categories:

Photography, Cartooning & graphic art
Photograph of policeman towering over a street with horse-drawn wagon, several people, and person on donkey.
Jewish Robbers
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This engraving depicting “Jewish robbers” is from the book Des bekannten Diebes, Mörders und Räubers Lips Tullians, und seiner Complicen Leben und Ubelthaten (The Known Thief, Murderer, and Robber…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)

Date:

1716

Subjects:

Print, Crime, Economic life, Profession, Poverty

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of men in fetters arranged in a line, some with ropes around their necks, and German text above.
Portrait of Jacob Judah Leon Templo
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This is one of three known portraits of Jacob Judah Leon Templo, who was famous for his elaborate wooden model of the Temple of Solomon, which he turned into a traveling exhibition and showed and…

Contributor:

Shalom Italia

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1640–1649

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Profession, Medicine, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print of man in moustache and skullcap facing viewer and holding cloth in left hand, encircled by Latin text. Beneath his portrait is an unraveled scroll with illustration of figures and large buildings.
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:

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.