Printed baptismal certificate filled in and signed by Martin Wetzler, a Jewish scrivener, for William Warwood on April 28, 1869 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The certificate, printed by Leifenring in Allentown, is notable for Wetzler's rarity as a Jewish scrivener in the Lehigh Valley at that time. Wetzler, known as the "Jewish Dindamann" (penman), wrote in Hebrew, German, and English and sometimes included a Star of David on these Christian certificates.
Subject: Pennsylvania German Culture
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Birth certificate of Michael Cassyte, created on April 10, 1861 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The certificate is a Taufshine, a type of Pennsylvania German birth certificate, filled in and signed in Hebrew and German by Martin Wetzler, a Jewish scrivener. The document is significant due to Wetzler's Jewish identity, a rarity for a scrivener in the Lehigh Valley at the time. Wetzler's signature includes a Star of David.
Leather-bound Pennsylvania German daily prayer book, published in Philadelphia by Mentz und Sohn in 1834. Includes a fraktur bookplate and four pages of family records in the hand of Martin Wetzler, a Jewish fraktur scrivener, dated June 1859. Additional birth records in another hand are present, dated in the 1860s. The book also contains a letter written in Hebrew characters.
A watercolor caricature depicting a stereotypical portrayal of a wealthy Jew. The drawing, possibly copied from a Pennsylvania German ABC book, features exaggerated facial features and attire. It is characterized by anti-Semitic tropes and was likely created circa 1885.
Watercolor painting depicting a genealogical chart of the Lippman, Elkin, and Levin families. The chart includes two monuments, one with a cross and the other without a symbol. It was discovered in the attic of a Pennsylvania German family in Lititz, Pennsylvania, circa 1850.