Box 42

Scope and Contents

Selections of color caricatures with satirical titles published in the British magazine Vanity Fair. The caricatures include prominent Jewish individuals who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Alfred Dreyfus, Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter, Sir Francis Goldsmid, Joseph Joachim, Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild, and Israel Zangwill.

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents

Prints of scenes and depictions of Jewish characters in popular theater and literature. Examples include Shylock from Merchant of Venice, Rebecca and Isaac from Ivanhoe, and Fagan from Oliver Twist.