(JEWISH LIFE AND CUSTOM).

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 113

(JEWISH LIFE AND CUSTOM).

Notable collection of c. 150 prints of European Jewish life: the home, synagogue, study-hall, cemetery, Festivals, weddings, commerce, trade and street-scenes. Also pogroms and other outrages, expulsion and migration (including to America), etc. Many removed from German and English language newpapers

18th-19th centuries:

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,800

Of particular interest are those images (especially Central and Eastern European) depicting general workaday life where a Jewish presence is inescapable: As inn-keeper, traveler, soldier, passing pedestrian, a curiosity, or part of the mass multi-ethnic swath of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires