2-979-082 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Firing and Sacking of the Synagogue, 1857. Scene from "Master Walter, the Physician. A Tale of Old London": ' "They have fired the Synagogue"...[Muriel] said quietly, " and it will be our turn next...When the sun rose on the morning following that eventful night the ruins of the Synagogue and of the best houses in the quarter, and the dead bodies of 700 Jews, bore witness to the fervent zeal of the Christian mob'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.