Print portfolio 43, 1493-1598, circa 1735-1906, undated

Prints with scenes of Jewish persecutions, massacres, and exiles dating from biblical times to World War I. Scenes include the burning and lamentation of Jerusalem as Jews are led into captivity in Babylon, massacres by the Romans, scenes of exile, scenes of Jewish suffering during World War I, images of the figure of the Wandering Jew, illustrations of Jews taking the Jewish Oath in European courts, and Jewish characters in novels and plays such as the Merchant of Venice. Of note are selected pages from the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493, which relate the story of Simon of Trent and of the Rintfleisch movement, a series of massacres against Jews in the year 1298. In addition, this portfolio contains several pages of the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster, which tells of repeated persecutions, massacres, and expulsions of the Jews of France starting in 1180. A significant amount of text in this portfolio is in either Latin or German.