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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…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

After 1738

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Antisemitism, Profession, Death

Categories:

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.
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, Antisemitism, Death

Categories:

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.
Herr Wendriner Makes a Phone Call
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On the day of Walter Rathenau’s funeral in 1922, all mail and telephone service in Germany was suspended between 2:00 and 2:10 pm “If he won’t honor our invoice, I’ll simply give him a buzz. Put the…

Contributor:

Kurt Tucholsky

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1922

Subjects:

Violence, Technology, Finance, Antisemitism, Death, Fiction

Categories:

Fiction
Jacob the Liar
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And the resistance, I will be asked: Where is the resistance? Could it be that the heroes are gathering in the shoe factory or in the freight yard, at least a few? Is it possible that at the ghetto’s…

Contributor:

Jurek Becker

Places:

East Berlin, East Germany (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1969

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Resistance, Fascism, Death, Fiction

Categories:

Fiction
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, Antisemitism, Ashkenazi, Death, Coins

Categories:

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.