Poster of a giant caricatured Jewish man holding businessmen in a noose
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 27.375 inches (69.533 cm) | Width: 19.125 inches (48.578 cm)
Archival History
The antisemitic poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
Scope and Content
Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It depicts a grotesque caricature of an oversized Jewish man pulling a rope around the necks of six men in business clothes to show the ways Jews manipulate financial markets and have a stranglehold on business. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination with the intent to increase hatred against outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia had been invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government in collaboration with the German occupiers.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Poster on offwhite paper with a gradient red background. Filling the upper half is a caricature of an oversized man wearing a long, black coat and a skull cap with a Star of David. He is scowling and his nose is disproportionately large for his already exaggerated stereotyped Jewish features. His skin is whitish, and he has a long pointed beard and peyot [side curls], with large ears, thick eyebrows, and an open mouth with 2 teeth. He grips in both hands a thick yellow rope with a slip knot around the necks of a group of 6 men half his size in business clothes. The men are agonized, choked, and pulled off the ground by the thick rope around their necks; their faces are pink, some have open mouths with protruding tongues, and splayed limbs. There is Serbian cursive text above and on the left, and across the lower edge.
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Serbia--History--20th century--Posters.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Serbia--20th century--Posters.
- Antisemitism--Pictorial works.
- Jewish businesspeople--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Antisemitism in art.
Genre
- Posters
- Object