Auction 55b
Part II - Bruno Kirschner's Medal Collection and other Numismatic Items
By Kedem
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May 9, 2017
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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LOT 138:
Two Anti-Semitic Medals - Baptism of a Jew / Süss the Jew - Germany, 18th Century
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Two Anti-Semitic Medals - Baptism of a Jew / Süss the Jew - Germany, 18th Century
1. "The Useless Baptism of Jews", anti-Semitic medal, by Christian Wermuth. [Germany, ca. 1700]. Silvered bronze.
Obverse: a Jew kneeling at the edge of a rocky shore; on his neck is a grindstone. Behind him is a priest (holding a prayer book) performing the baptism ceremony. Next to the priest is another figure - a man whose hands are stretched forward in order to push the Jew into the water at the appropriate moment. Above them is a German legend meaning "So he will remain forever". Reverse: German legend loosely translated as "A Jew seldom becomes a Christian, unless he has done something wrong. He does so only to avoid punishment, for if he steals, his punishment will be too severe". On the medal's edge is another legend reading: "When the mouse eats the cat, then the Jew becomes a true Christian".
Diameter: 44 mm. Suspension loop.
See: "Deutsche Spottmedaillen auf Juden", by Bruno Kirschner. Munich and Jerusalem, 1968. P. 27 (photographed - item no. 2).
2. Anti-Semitic medal. [Germany, 1738].
Obverse: portrait of Joseph Suskind Oppenheimer (Süss the Jew) and the legend "Iud Ioseph Sus Oppenheimer / 1738". Reverse: the birdcage in which Oppenheimer was raised to the gallows, and a legend in German.
Diameter: 38 mm.
See: Deutsche Spottmedaillen auf Juden", by Bruno Kirschner. Munich and Jerusalem, 1968. P. 49 (item no. 15).
Provenance: collection of Bruno Kirschner.
