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Jews and Ottomans Defending the City of Buda
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From May through August 1541, the forces of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to the city of Buda (present day Budapest, Hungary) and captured it, ushering in 150 years of Ottoman rule. This illustration…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Buda, Holy Roman Empire (Buda, Hungary)

Date:

1541

Subjects:

Print, War, Muslim-Jewish relations, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, History
Woodcut print of two armies fighting with swords and shields.
Plunder of the Ghetto Following the Fettmilch Riots against the Jews of Frankfurt am Main Plunder of the Ghetto
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In August 1614, a gingerbread baker named Vincenz Fettmilch (d. 1616) led a mob that rampaged through the Judengasse (Jews’ street) in Frankfurt am Main, injuring and killing two or three Jews…

Contributor:

Matthäus Merian

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1628

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Violence

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Engraved print of people fighting in chaotic city street.
The 1670 Expulsion of the Jews from Vienna
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This illustration, from an antisemitic publication, Jüdische neue Zeitung vom Marsch aus Wien und anderen Orten der jetzigen zwölff Jüdischen Stammen (Jewish Newspaper from the March to Vienna and…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Munich, Holy Roman Empire (Munich, Germany)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Christian-Jewish relations, Exile, Cities, Print

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print with German text on top and large illustration of procession of people leaving a city carrying bundles, with some horses and wagons.
Leḥem Yehudah (The Bread of Judah): On the Fate of the First Edition
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I printed my book [Leḥem Yehudah] in Venice at the beginning of for the Almighty Shadai [in gematria = 1553] has dealt very bitterly with me (Ruth 1:20) and the ruler of Rome [the Pope] decreed that…

Contributor:

Judah Lerma

Places:

Sabbioneta, Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)

Date:

1554

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Pogroms, Writing, Print

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand Accounts