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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:

Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of men in fetters arranged in a line, some with ropes around their necks, and German text above.
Jewish Man and Woman from Frankfurt
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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…

Contributor:

Caspar Luyken

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1703

Subjects:

Print, Cities, Dress, Christian-Jewish relations, Ethnography

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print of man in cloak, hat, lace collar, and high boots, and woman dressed in cloak, winged bonnet, ruff collar, full skirt, and bodice, holding a large purse, with city landscape in the background.
Jewish Betrothal Ceremony
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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…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Synagogue, Ethnography, Conversion, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving with groups of people in room talking, with open door to another room in background.
Jewish Woman
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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…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1572

Subjects:

Women, Calendar, Dress

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of woman in profile wearing dress and hat and Hebrew writing on her left.
Illustrations from Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs)
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These woodcuts appeared in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It was the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600/1

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Passover, Music, Food and drink

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Woodcut illustration of six standing figures, three of whom are wearing masks and holding instruments, with Yiddish text above and below.
Sukkot Celebrations
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Synagogue, Food and drink, Sephardic

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print of two scenes: top shows a procession of men in prayer shawls holding branches through a synagogue. Bottom shows a group of people eating at a table in a tabernacle.
Jewish woman in Cairo
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This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Cairo, Egypt, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…

Contributor:

Cornelis de Bruyn

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Women, Dress, Leisure, Cities, Ethnography

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Dress & Adornment
Print of seated person in large hat and robes facing to the left smoking a very long pipe.
Top: Searching for Hametz; Bottom: Passover Seder Among Sephardic Jews
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Food and drink, Family, Sephardic

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows women and girls in kitchen looking through cupboards and cleaning the table. Bottom shows eight individuals around a dining table in ornate room with lit fire in fireplace.
It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale
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Contributor:

Margot Zemach

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Date:

1977

Subjects:

Poverty, Humor, Wisdom, Family

Categories:

Children & young adult literature, Cartooning & graphic art
Painting of interior of wooden house filled with people, objects, and animals.
The Girl of Dreams
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In the meantime, they reached HaYarkon Street. The three couples climbed on their bicycles again and said goodbye. From afar, a fire siren was heard, the usual background music of Lag BaOmer. Merav’s…

Contributor:

Shulamit Lapid, Shemuel Bunim

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1985

Subjects:

Adolescence, Rebellion, Love, Holidays, Lag b’Omer

Categories:

Children & young adult literature, Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of people on bicycles.