anti-semitism images. a nuremberg drawing from the late 1400s, depicting the burning of jews

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Anti-Semitism Images

A Nuremberg drawing from the late 1400s, depicting the burning of Jews.

Portrayals of Jews in drama were a long-standing tradition by the time Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice. The Jew seems to have been the

guy audiences loved to hate in medieval and Renaissance drama

Six panels illustrating a legend about the theft of a picture of the Virgin Mary by a Jew. From Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, a compilation of poetry and music by Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284).

A 15th-century German woodcut of a Jewish sow, in this case a boar.

Allegation having killed a "Christian" child, in combination with the Jewish sow

Simon of Trent

1933-1939

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