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Portrait of Jacob Ries
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Jacob Ries (1660–1751) of Prague first worked as a badchan (jester) for weddings. In 1710, he became court jester in Vienna under Charles VI. The artist of this portrait of Ries is not known. It…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1710

Subjects:

Portrait, Class, Monarchy, Profession, Humor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of a man of short stature with long wavy hair and a hat, holding a cane in right hand with left hand on hip, with figures in background and Hebrew and German writing above and below picture.
Statutes
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    No one shall seek permission to become a master, unless he has it in writing from the Jewish Elders of Prague that he is native of the place, and he shall previously furnish the Jewish Elders with a…

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The Jewish Tailors’ Guild of Prague

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1690

Subjects:

Profession, Economic life, Community, Communal organizations, Dress

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes
The Childhood and Youth of a Man of the Enlightenment
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I was born on 19 February 1758 in Nový Bydžov [in Bohemia] of well-to-do parents who destined me at birth to be a rabbi, a common practice among the Israelites then. For at that time, when all…

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Peter Beer

Places:

Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1839

Subjects:

Education, Enlightenment, Profession, Emancipation, Adolescence

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, (Auto)biography