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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
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Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)
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After 1738
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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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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
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Artist Unknown
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1619–1624
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This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…
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Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czechia)
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1741
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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
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1710
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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…
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Unknown
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1716
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The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…
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Caspar Luyken
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1703
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This illustration depicting a Jewish betrothal ceremony appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to Christianity. The first…
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724