Clipped magazine illustration of Jud Süss hanging from the gallows
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 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 clipping 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
Magazine clipping of an illustration of Jud Süss hanging in the cage suspended from the gallows. The date and source are unknown. Joseph Süss Oppenheimer (1698-1738), known as Jud Süss, was a Jewish banker who administered the finances of Duke Karl Alexander of Wurttemberg, enriching the Duke and himself. Others were envious and resentful of his success, feelings increased by his actions, such as granting contracts to Jews and easing settlement restrictions. When the Duke died unexpectedly in March 1737, Oppenheimer was arrested, tried for fraud and treason, and sentenced to death. A huge crowd watched the hanging and the body was left hanging in public for six years. In 1939, a film, Jud Süss, was produced by Goebbels's Nazi Propaganda Ministry. The inflammatory, antisemitic film portrayed Jew Süss as a grotesquely exaggerated, greedy, unscrupulous Jewish businessman who rapes a non-Jewish woman. The film was a major success throughout Europe. The print is one of 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
Rectangular unevenly trimmed glossy paper clipping, likely from a magazine, reprinting in black ink an illustration of a man hanging in a flat bottomed oval cage suspended from a very tall cross bar gallows with tripod supports and 4 ground anchored poles set on a stone platform. A pole with a decorative top is attached vertically to the crossbar; near the top, another pole extends horizontally to the left; the cage hangs frm this pole. V-shaped birds fly in the sky on the left. Soldiers stand in the foreground on the grassy knoll below and there is a large crowd of indistinct people in the middle distance on the left. The back has 2paragraohs of typed German fraktur text, cut off on the left side.
People
- Suss-Oppenheimer, Joseph, 1698 or 1699-1738--Pictorial works.
Subjects
- Jewish capitalists and financiers--Persecution--Germany--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Persecution--Germany--History--18th century--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism--Germany--History--18th century--Pictorial works.
- Jewish bankers--Pictorial works.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany--History--18th century--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism in art.
- Court Jews--Persecution--Germany--Wurttemberg.
Genre
- Newspapers.
- Object
- Information Forms