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This sheet music is for a humorous song in the style of a polka, an example of the popular music that Warsaw composer Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld was famous for.
These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…
An imaginary Thanksgiving dinner attended by the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, George Washington, a Halloween witch, and a strutting peacock. A version of this…
Dr. Herzl: Bravo! Bravo Abdul Hamid! To the right, the heads of the Greeks (Macedonians), to the left, those of the Amalekites (Armenians)! Keep going! I know that you are merciful and pious! Give…
Cover of Der groyser kundes: A zhurnal far humor, vitz un satire (July 12, 1912), with a cartoon by Lola (Leon Israel). Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson is portrayed as Delilah, cutting off the…
Dad Runs Away with the Circus was Etgar Keret's first children's book. It was illustrated by award-winning illustrator and comic book artist Rutu Modan. The two collaborated on several projects…
Illustrations from Leslie Kimmelman’s children’s book, The Runaway Latkes, illustrated by Paul Yalowitz. This Hanukkah story describes latkes that come to life and escape their oily fate.
On this silver Purim cup from Augsburg, Germany, a quotation from the Talmud (b. Megillah 7b) inscribed around the rim advises its bearer to drink in celebration of Purim until unable to distinguish…
This Hanukkah lamp from Frankfurt am Main, like the earliest known silver Hanukkah lamps made in Germany, is shaped like a chest and resembles inkwells of the period. This one is relatively…
Sick, Sick, Sick was very different from other comic strips of the 1950s. It had the format of a comic strip but did not have conventional story lines or superheroes. Instead, it was more like an…
