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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…
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Artist Unknown
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Munich, Holy Roman Empire (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1745
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This illustration, from Jüdische neue Zeitung vom Marsch aus Wien und anderen Orten der jetzigen zwölff Jüdischen Stammen (Jewish Newspaper from the March to Vienna and Other Places of the Current…
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Munich, Holy Roman Empire (Munich, Germany)
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1745
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In 1705, the Nuremberg artist, Johannes Alexander Böner, published a slim volume about Fürth, Germany, containing several copper-engravings dealing with the life of Jews in the city. This print…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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This print depicting a Jewish wedding in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish families…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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This modern synagogue in Plauen (in the Saxony region) was one of the few synagogues built in Germany in the economically turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. Jews and non-Jews contributed funds…
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Fritz Landauer
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Plauen, Weimar Republic (Plauen, Germany)
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1928–1930
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This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
Date:
1748
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This rainy streetscape exemplifies the style and subject matter for which Lesser Ury is best known. The Kurfürstendamm is one of Berlin’s most storied boulevards, known for its very wide walking paths…
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Lesser Ury
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1910
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Very little is known about the actor Siegfried Berisch (1877–1933). He started out performing in the cabaret and German Jewish theater scenes in Berlin and Vienna. Berisch’s first major role was in Sc…
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Photographer Unknown
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…
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George Braun, Franciscus Hogenberg
Places:
Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)
Date:
1612
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Max Liebermann frequently traveled to Amsterdam. He was attracted to the city because of its connection to Rembrandt, whom he idolized. But he came back again and again, drawn to Amsterdam’s Jewish…
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Max Liebermann
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1908