Go! Go! Color print of a Jewish family sending a youth off to make his fortune
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 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 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
Color print in ink on paper of an engraving of a smiling young man standing in the center of a group of people standing in the street. He is in three quarters right profile in a top hat, blue jacket, and orange pants. He holds his right hand up, thumb and index fingers touching and the others extended, and carries an umbrella and a bundle on a stick in his left hand. He has curly brown hair, pink cheeks, and a red bottom lip. An overweight woman in an orange bonnet, jacket, and dress stands next to him on the left with her back to the viewer. Her head is turned to the right and she holds a white cloth to her face. On the right, a plump man with a pink cheek, a thick bottom lip, and a gray beard wearing a bicorne hat, coat, waistcoat, and trousers leans into him. Behind them in the far right stands a man in left profile who wears a top hat and purple coat and carries an orange sack over his shoulder. He has stereotypically Jewish features, including thick eyebrows, a large nose, and thick red lower lip, and he rests his left hand on the chest of a man in right profile who wears a fur-trimmed hat and long green coat and carries an orange sack over his shoulder. In the background on the far left, a young girl in a pink dress cries into a handkerchief. A German caption is printed in a panel at the bottom.
back, in oval, stamped, black ink : GR[?] MUSEUM / S[?]IN
Subjects
- Jews--Germany--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Jews in art.
Genre
- Art
- Object