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From left to right: Christian, pagan, Muslim and Jewish costumes of the Middle East.

Tags: Arabs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Human types, Israel, Jews, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Turkey, Turks

Landscape at Jordan river.

Tags: Arabs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Jews, Jordan, Jordan river, Natural environment, Palestine, Rivers, Views

Jewish rabbi.

Tags: Books, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Priests, Rabbis, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey

Jew.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Jewish woman.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jewellery, Jews, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Jewish merchant.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Merchants / Traders, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Members of a Jewish family in their home. According to the author, they lived at the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus, around which the Jewish quarter was built.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Jewellery, Jews, Palace of the Porphyrogenitus / Tekfur Sarayı, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Arabic alphabet. Jewish residents of Jerusalem.

Tags: Alphabets, Arabic alphabet, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Palestine, Social sphere and everyday life

A Jewish man from the Ottoman Empire. An Armenian man from the Ottoman Empire.

Tags: Armenians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey

Jewish nurse and “chicatico”, Salonica.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Jews, Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Wet nurses, Women

Jewish man.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jews, Shoes and footwear, Turkey

A Jewish girl dressed for her marriage ceremony.

Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Furniture, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Jewellery, Jews, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in Ottoman costumes at Tripoli, Lebanon. Also depicted their escorts, a local interpreter and a Janissary.

Tags: Arabs, Author portraits, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Lebanon, Portraits, Travel, Tripoli (Lebanon)

Jacob Breuning, his companion Carlier de Pinon, and their escorts on their way to Mount Sinai.

Tags: Animals, Arabs, Author portraits, Cairo, Camels, Children, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Horses, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Travel, Weapons

Jacob Breuning, his companion Carlierde Pinon, and their escorts setting off to Mount Sinai (from Cairo).

Tags: Animals, Arabs, Author portraits, Cairo, Camels, Children, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Tents, Travel, Weapons

The Janissary and the interpreter that accompanied Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in their trip from Istanbul to Egypt. Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in costumes typical to Istanbul and Egypt.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Janissaries, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Travel

Costumes of Jewish people from Rhodes island, worn by Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon. On the left, their Jewish guide, Abraham.

Tags: Aegean islands, Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Greece, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Rhodes, Travel

Composition of scenes from the rise and fall of Sabbatai Zevi, the rabi who claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews until he was forced to convert to Islam by the Ottoman Sultan (17th century). Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the Messiah. Sabbatai Zevi enthroned by his followers. Ottoman soldiers arrest Sabbatai Zevi in the Dardanelles. From: J. Chr. Wagner, Delineatio Provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici in Oriente, Augsburg, 1684.

Tags: Abydos, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, History, Jews, Johann Christoph Wagner, Macedonia, Portraits, Religious practices, Sabbatai Zevi, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thessaloniki, Turkey, Weapons

Reliefs from Magnesia and Thessaloniki at the court of Louvre Museum. From Poliorama Pittoresco review, 1843.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Jews, Macedonia, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Views, Women

View of Incantadas monument in the Roman agora of Thessaloniki, based on earlier drawing from the edition by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett. Lithograph, c. 1830.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Jews, Macedonia, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Views, Women

Jewish young woman from Thessaloniki. Jewish man. Ambassafor guard in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Beauty care, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Jews, Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Women

Jewish wetnurse with infant. From: Adelaide Mary Walker, Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes, London, Chapman and Hill, 1864.

Tags: Beauty care, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Jews, Macedonia, Professions, Wet nurses, Women

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "Hebrew Melodies-Jephtha's daughter": Jewish girl.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jews, Lord Byron, Natural environment, Poems, Women

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "Hebrew Melodies-She walks in beauty": Jewish girl.

Tags: Ethnic groups, Harps, Human types, Jews, Lord Byron, Musical instruments, Natural environment, Poems, Women

View of the sculptures of the now lost Incantadas monument at the southern entrance of the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki. The sculptures were incorporated in the house of a family of Sephardi Jewish merchants. British consul Paradise, who has come to show John Stuart and Nicholas Revett the monument, meets the owner of the house. A young servant offers the consul a cup of coffee while from above the owner's wife reprimands her husband for not having invited the consul to sit before offering him coffee. On the left, a woman who is spinning approaches the travellers. On the right, Stuart and Revett with the young son of the British consul, who is escorted by the consul's dragoman (interpreter).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Author portraits, Britons, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), James Stuart, Jews, Macedonia, Nicholas Revett, Professions, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Travel, Women

Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Jews, Judaea, Palestine, Weapons

Jewish lady of Syria.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jews, Syria, Women

Jewish merchant.

Tags: Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Jews, Professions, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Jewish merchant.

Tags: Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Jews, Professions, Thrace, Turkey

Jewish coffee-seller in Algiers.

Tags: Algeria, Algiers, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Human types, Itinerant traders, Jews, Shoes and footwear

Jewish merchant visiting the harem to show her merchandise to the women confined in the harem.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Harem, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Jews, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Jewish woman in ceremonial dress.

Tags: Beauty care, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Furniture, Human types, Istanbul, Jewellery, Jews, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Jewish man.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Jewish woman.

Tags: Beauty care, Cairo, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jewellery, Jews, Smoking, Women

Jewish man.

Tags: Cairo, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jews, Music, Musical instruments

Women from Izmir (Smyrna) with typical head wear. Fig. 17: Greek woman from the Aegean islands. Fig. 18: Affluent woman from Izmir Fig. 19: Jewish woman from Izmir. Fig. 20: Headscarf worn by all Izmir women independently of ethnic origin, according to Cornelis de Bruyn.

Tags: Asia Minor, Beauty care, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Human types, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Jews, Turkey, Women

Jewish merchant.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jews, Merchants / Traders, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Turkey

Jewish doctor.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Healthcare, Human types, Jews, Physicians, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Turkey

Synagogue in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Palestine, Prayer, Religious practices, Synagogues

Jewish woman in Balat.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Jewish man in Balat quarter.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Thrace, Turkey

Snapshot from everyday life in the Jewish quarter of Balat.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Jewish woman in the quarter of Balat.

Tags: Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Thrace, Women

The Jewish quarter of Balat in Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Jews, Professions, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Young Jewish woman in Balat.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jews, Thrace, Turkey, Women

A Janissary courts a young woman; he has slashed his arm as a token of his affection. A Jewish matchmaker is standing on his side. La Motraye states that he witnessed the scene himself.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Jews, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Women

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