Book
Creator(s)
- Gyp (Author)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Leon Challey (Publisher)
- Gyp (Illustrator)
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 book 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
"Ohe, Les Diregeants" (Oh, the Leaders!), an antisemitic dramatic satire of unscrupulous Jewish businessmen, by Gyp, pen name of the Countess Martel de Janville. It has around seventy full page color illustrations by Petit Bob, another pseudonym used by de Janville, a prolific writer and caricaturist. An anti-Dreyfusard, her distinctly styled antisemitic illustrations were extremely popular. The book 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
Book; black bound, gilt on spine: Ohe! Les Dirigeants, title and back page have color illustration of a white rabbit and hand pulling carrot; 195 p. ; color illustrations ; 18 cm. (7.00 x 4.750 in.) Title page: Gyp / OHE! / LES DIRIGEANTS! / images coloriees du petit Bob / Leon Chailley / Editeur / 1896 / Bob; ; Gyp was the pen name of Martel de Janville, Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau, comtesse de, (1849-1932) , also S.G.M.A. Colophon: Acheve d'imprimer pour Leon Chailley, Editeur sur Les Presses de Ed. Crete a Corbeil (seine-et-Oise).
Subjects
- French drama.
- Women novelists, French--19th century.
- Politics and literature--France--History.
- Women anarchists--France--19th century.
- Antisemitism in literature--France--19th century.
Genre
- Books and Published Materials
- Object