Circumcision of Jesus foreshadowing of Christ's Passion to come in the context of the "Circumcision". Having borrowed the large architectural setting in the Temple of the "Presentation", later scenes may show the high priest alone holding the baby, as he or a "mohel" performs the operation, as in the St Wolfgang altarpiece by Michael Pacher (1481), or Dürer's painting (right) and his influential woodcut from his series on the "Life of the Virgin". This reflected what had by then become, and remains, standard Jewish practice, where the ceremony is performed in the synagogue and the baby is held by the seated rabbi as
Przedecz (Jewish community) population rose to 606. In other words, during these thirty years, the percentage of Jews radically increased. This occurred because Jews from the neighbouring villages moved to Przedecz. By 1921, the population was 3,040, of whom 840 were Jews. Przedecz consisted of a few streets, but it had all the components of Jewish community life: a synagogue, "Beth midrash", "mikva", Jewish schools, a yeshiva, Jewish library, Jewish cemetery, "eruv", welfare and cultural organisations. Przedecz had its own rabbi, "shochet" and "mohel". In the early days, the "shechitah" of animals took place in the butcher's backyard, and the "shechitah" of fowl