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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…

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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 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:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of men in fetters arranged in a line, some with ropes around their necks, and German text above.