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| Keywords: Hep-hep riots.jpg Contemporary etching depicting a so-called Hepp-Hepp Riot against Jews in Frankfurt This was one of the many anti-Semitic riots that took place in Germany in 1819 amidst a climate of anti-Semitism fuelled by various anti-Jewish publications Participants in these riots rallied to the cry Hepp Hepp which may have been an acronym for Hierosolyma est perdita meaning Jerusalem is lost ---- Original comments on en wikipedia uploaded on 08 08 13 November 2006 by en User Humus sapiens 1819 Hep-Hep riots in Frankfurt An engraving by Johann Michael Voltz Two peasant women are assaulting a Jew with pitchfork and broom A man wearing spectacles tails and a six-button waistcoat perhaps a pharmacist or a schoolteacher <ref>Amos Elon 2002 The Pity of It All A History of the Jews in Germany 1743-1933 Metropolitan Books ISBN 0805059644 p 103</ref> holds another Jew by the throat and is about to hit him with a stick <references/> Image source http //germanhistorydocs ghi-dc org/sub_image cfm image_id 429 The image dates from 1819 and is so in the Public Domain due to its age Creator Johann Michael Voltz PD-old-70-1923 Riots Anti-Jewish pogroms in Germany Antisemitic pictures Johann Michael Voltz 1819 in Frankfurt am Main | ||||
