Genealogy and research recordsRB-EXT-PD-0002

This portrait shows Halberstadt-born reformer Israel Jacobson

This historical portrait presents Israel Jacobson, born in Halberstadt in 1768 and active in Jewish civic emancipation and religious reform. An artist made the likeness for public circulation. It gives the city’s wider Jewish context, but it does not establish a connection to the Reichenbach family.

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English translation

Israel Jacobson, Privy Financial Councillor and president of the Royal Westphalian Consistory of the Mosaic religion.

English of the legible text, prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive.

Archive reference
RB-EXT-PD-0002
Date
1808
Digital image
1291 × 1800 pixels
Evidence status
Historical context image
Source and provenance
Engraving by Christian Schule after Franz Karl Tielker; Rijksmuseum object RP-P-1914-3998.
Credit
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1914-3998, via Wikimedia Commons
Rights
CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication
Image treatment
Source file presented without crop or generative alteration.

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Reichenbach Family Archive. “This portrait shows Halberstadt-born reformer Israel Jacobson.” 1808. RB-EXT-PD-0002. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-ext-pd-0002.

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