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Auction 2 · Lot 113
(JEWISH LIFE AND CUSTOM).
- Estimate
- $3,000–$5,000
- Hammer price
- $2,800
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
18th-19th centuries
Description
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
summary
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