ABSTRACT
The article sums up the results of studies of Rembrandt’s prints related to Jewish themes: portraits, tronies, genre and narrative subjects alike. Particular attention is paid to the clothes in which Rembrandt dresses his heroes. The traditional view that he borrowed the costumes of Jews in the streets turns out to be unfounded. He began dressing figures in costume that is conventionally called that of Ashkenazi Jews while he was still in Leiden, where there were no Jews at the time. The Sephardi Jews with whom Rembrandt did have contact will have dressed like other wealthy Amsterdam burghers. The clothing he gives to his beggars is more like that of Dutch street figures or older prints rather than of poor Amsterdam Ashkenazim.
