Images - Religion, Education, Social Welfare

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11.	Legal Emancipation of the Jews (July 3, 1869) This facsimile shows the Law on Freedom of Religion [Gesetz, betreffend die Gleichberechtigung....
12.	Jewish Field Service During the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71) Jewish religious customs were respected even during military service in the field, as this contemporary lithograph illustrates.
13.	Jewish Synagogue, Oranienburger Straße 30 (c. 1885) Just a few days before victorious Prussian troops staged their victory parade through the Brandenburg Gate (September 21, 1866), Bismarck and other Berlin notables attended the dedication of the....
14.	Anton von Werner, The 70th Birthday of Commercial Councilor Valentin Manheimer [Der 70. Geburtstag des Kommerzienrates Valentin Manheimer] (1887) This portrait of the Jewish entrepreneur and commercial councilor Valentin Manheimer (b. 1815) was painted by the Hohenzollern court painter ....
15.	Jewish Civic Leader Emil Lehmann (1894) Emil Lehmann (1829-1898) was a Dresden lawyer and the first Jew to be elected (in 1865) to Dresden’s municipal council. With brief interruptions, he held that seat until 1883, serving much of this....
16.	Court Preacher Adolf Stöcker (1880) Adolf Stöcker (1835-1909) was a court preacher and the leader of the antisemitic Christian Social Party. This woodcut shows him in 1880. Some contemporaries referred to Stöcker as Germany’s “second....
17.	Historian Heinrich von Treitschke (1880) Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896) was a nationalist historian of the “Borussian” school of historiography.....
18.	Historian Theodor Mommsen (c. 1870) Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was an archeologist, jurist, and historian of the ancient world. He served as a liberal member of the Prussian House of Deputies (1873-82) and the Reichstag (1881-84).....
19.	Antisemitic Postcard: "The Only Jew-Free Hotel in Frankfurt am Main" (1897) This color postcard from 1897 sends greetings from the Kölner Hof in Frankfurt am Main, located at Scharnhorststrasse 37-39. It advertises itself as the “only Jew-free hotel” in the city.
20.	The Drawing Lesson [Die Zeichenstunde] (1870) Color lithograph by anonymous artist.
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