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Schraubtaler (Screw Medal) of Jud Süss Oppenheimer
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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:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)

Date:

1738

Subjects:

Crafts, Crime, Death, Antisemitism, Ashkenazi

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Coins
19 illustrations in circular frames connected by ribbon of different painted scenes of man's life from birth to gallows, and two coins, one with gallows and the other with the profile of a man.
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.