Acceptance of Jews Illustration with a hideous caricature of a Jewish man
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Archival History
The print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
The print is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Print of illustration in black ink on paper of a caricatured face of a man with ugly, exaggerated stereotypically Jewish features. He wears a dark kippah over short, curly hair and has hooded, beady eyes, large ears, a very large nose, a dark mustache, a thick bottom lip, and a dark wavy beard. His temples, nose, and cheeks are lightly shaded. His brow and the corners of his eyes are wrinkled and he grins widely, showing several small, widely spaced teeth. He is the in the middle of a large gray rectangle with a Russian caption printed below it. Russian text is printed on the back in the center and in the bottom right.
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Soviet Union--Pictorial works.
- Jews in art.
- Antisemitism in art.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Art
- Object