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The Literary and Art Society’s Purim fancy dress balls in London formed a small, short-lived expression of Anglo-Jewish bicultural identity. A few English nobles impersonated one of their ancestors, 66 but the Jews, whose ancestors were not perforce aristocrats, chose more prestigious personas. Following James Rothschild’s example, he sought invitations to prestigious balls to meet the very rich. Pamela Horn, in her study of Victorian leisure activities, stated that, for the socially ambitious, fancy dress balls were regarded as the most desirable means for celebrating special events and “making a mark. Wagg’s choice of impersonations and playful cross-dressing signal a confident, non-conformist element in his character rather than marginal individuality, as queer theory might predict.

These masks allow us to protect ourselves from perceived threats and social dangers such as feeling different or unusual. A second procession, “The Triumphal March of Queen Esther,” featured officers of the Persian court, Mordecai carried on a sedan, lance-bearers, high priests, the triumphal chariot of the Queen, parasol bearers, camels, Bedouins, Arabs, men blowing the shofar, and the twelve tribes of Israel. Smiffys is a leading fancy dress supplier and family business with a 125 year heritage in costumes, wigs, make up and accessories. A large oblong album, bound in red morocco, with gilt edges and clasp, and an engraved inscription “FANCY DRESS BALL BROOMHILL APRIL 17TH 1879” around Sir David Lionel Salomons’s initials on the cover, would have sat on the baronet’s parlor table for visitors to view and admire. Samuel Montagu, an Orthodox Jew, merchant banker, and Member of Parliament for Whitechapel, displayed his prosperity and excellent taste at a fancy dress ball in his magnificent home in Kensington Palace Gardens on February 22, 1887.The imperial and aristocratic Christian leisure culture provides the context for understanding nineteenth-century representations of affluent Jews in costume. Another photograph of Wagg shows him in an early-nineteenth-century outfit—in a straw hat with pale pin-striped trousers tucked into his boots, and holding a pince-nez and umbrella. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.

In the first of eight musical scenes, a reproduction of German-Jewish artist Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann’s painting The Jews Mourning in Exile (1831–1832), embodying the lament of Psalm 137 (“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept”; Fig. While authenticity of costume was paramount at society costume balls and Salomons could have produced one of his sisters’ skirts or shawls for his friend, they evidently did not require realistic women’s clothing for their pastime. After his appointment as Consul-General of Austria in New York, he was seen at a fancy dress ball in Saratoga dressed as an Austrian officer. Costumes provide identity possibilities outside one’s usual narrow, rigidly defined roles and privileges. This was a time when bourgeois capitalism countered the aristocracy’s hereditary claim to status and any individual, regardless of family origin, could become “someone” if they were determined enough.Perfect for Purim or a funny halloween costume, this outfit is sure to have you ready to teach Torah in no time. The narratives that we read in these photographs today, about their subjects’ character and social aspirations, are not those that their subjects told when discussing these photographs. Following Reissberger’s interpretation, Elana Shapira similarly argued that the purpose of the opening biblical scene of the eleven tableaux vivants staged in the Todesco Palace in 1893, by Sophie Todesco’s daughter Yella von Oppenheimer for Sophie and an eminent audience, was to deliberately expose the family’s otherness while integrating their Jewish identity into a European cultural context.