"Service on the Day of Atonement by the Israelite Soldiers of the Prussian Army before Metz 1870."

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

L.N. Rosenthal, (Philadelphia?)

Lithograph in German, with couple of lines in Hebrew and in English

Depicts a prayer service performed on Yom Kippur 1870 for Jewish soldiers in the Prussian army stationed near Metz (Alsace region), during the Franco-Prussian War, waged between 1870-71. T. It seems surprising that such an image would likely appeal to American Jews, an event both geographicaly and politically distant. The lithograph is unknown to Singerman, who equally fails to record any of the publisher's other productions. A similar image was produced on linen, see Catalogue of the Jewish Museum (London), p. 135, no. 664.