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Juedisches Ceremonial (Jewish Ceremony): Death and Mourning
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This illustration depicting Jewish death and mourning rituals (a sick man on his deathbed, a body laid out for burial, and a funeral procession) appeared in the book, Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Mourning, Ritual & observance, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.
Cemetery of the Fürth Jewish Community
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This print depicting the Jewish cemetery of Fürth, Germany, is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400…

Contributor:

Johannes Alexander Böner

Places:

Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)

Date:

1705

Subjects:

Print, Cemetery, Gravestones, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Printed engraving of cemetery enclosed by wall with several people walking through.
Triumph des Jahres 1813 (Triumph of the Year 1813)
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This caricature by the Henschel brothers celebrates the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in December 1813. This battle, the final in Napoleon’s “German Campaign,” is also known as the…

Contributor:

Gebrüder Henschel

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1813

Subjects:

Government, Death, Print, Portrait, Ashkenazi

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Print & Book Culture
Profile hand-colored etching of man, with line drawings of bodies on his face, wearing a hat in the shape of crow, and shirt and epaulets in the shape of a map with hand outstretched over it.
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.