Title: "Soup Kitchen for Poor Jews at Spitalfields."

Verlag: The Illustrated London News, London, England, 1879

Beschreibung

This is a black and white wood engraving from the December 27, 1879 issue of the Illustrated London News. It is being sold unframed, in an acid-free mylar envelope. Image size 277 x 232 mm. Size of sheet: 394 x 271 mm. Text on verso. The sheet is too large for the scanner's platen and so it is reproduced here in sections. il ne s'agit pas d'une reproduction moderne. (It's not a modern copy). Interestingly, the 12 people whose faces are seen in the illustration are all drawn with large noses. At least he doesn't depict them wearing jewels and finery, since another stereotype is that all Jews are rich. Speaking of prejudice, here's what a London Church publication says about this picturer (they are sympathetic but not free of prejudice]: Christ Church, Spitalfields, London. Soup kitchen for poor jews at Spitalfields, London; from The London Illustrated News, 27 December 1879. There was already a poor but hardworking Jewish community in the East End of London, and in Spitalfields the Jews had slowly dislodged the French Huguenot immigrants, many of whom who had built fine houses, found success and were now moving on as the demographic changed in this cosmopolitan district. [So the while the Jews are the hardworking poor, they are also characterized as DISLOGING the successful Huguenots out of their fine home. meir] In 1879 when this soup kitchen was sketched, the series of barbaric pogroms in Europe had not yet begun; 1881 saw the first of these atrocities, and in the last two decades of Queen Victoria?s reign countless Jews would flee to England from the continent, ending up in London and Manchester in particular. The poverty they suffered prompted their own great and good to erect a very solid institution for the relief of the Jewish Poor in 1902; this was the soup kitchen in Brune Street, and our picture is a telling and pathetic illustration of its forerunner in Spitalfields.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006176

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Title: "Soup Kitchen for Poor Jews at ...

Verlag: The Illustrated London News, London, England

Erscheinungsdatum: 1879

Einband: No Binding

Illustrator: C.R.

Zustand: Very Good