Print portfolio 47, 1647, 1735-1949, undated

Individual pages from books in German, Hebrew, Latin, and English, as well as records, print illustrations, and several sheets of stamps. Book pages date from the 17th and 18th centuries and cover topics such as antisemitism, daily and holiday prayers, arguments for the importance of the Hebrew language, and religious commentary. Of note are pages from Cosmographia by Sebastian MÜnster, originally published in 1544, blaming Jews for the Black Death in Strasbourg. Print illustrations include biblical imagery, ancient Israel, reproductions of papercuts by Yehudit Shadur, and monuments to prominent Jews. Of note is an illustration by Arthur Szyk featuring an excerpt from the 1264 Statute of Kalisz. Records include ketubot, share warrants, loan agreements, shiviti, regulations for Jewish cattle dealers, a Jewish National Fund land donation certificate, and Torath Chaim Yeshiva membership certificates. Of note is a clipping featuring an ordinance enacted by Franz Anton Graf on April 30, 1787, decreeing that all midwives will be fined or sentenced to prison for baptizing Jewish children without the consent of the parents. This portfolio also contains a small number of play advertisements from the mid-19th century. .