Color cartoon of a Jewish cloth merchant explaining the merchandise
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 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 caricature 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 caricature 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
Cartoon in paint with ink on paper of a gentile woman in left profile wearing a patterned blue coat with brown fur trim as she holds up white cloth extending from a bolt on the counter and talks to the shop keeper standing behind it. He stands on the left and has a bald crown, a bushy beard, and stereotypical Jewish features: thick eyebrows, a large nose, and fleshy lips. He wears a black bowtie and jacket as he leans in and smiles, looking up over his pince-nez. He gestures with his left hand as his right holds the cloth. In the bottom left, an umbrella leans against a chair. In the background, boxes and cloth are stacked on shelves. There is handwritten English text beneath the image and tape along the edges.
Subjects
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--Great Britain--19th century.
- Jewish merchants--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Jews in art.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
Genre
- Object
- Art