Colored lithograph depicting a pogrom in a city square
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 17.250 inches (43.815 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Strobridge Lithographing Co. (Publisher)
- Bartley Theodore Campbell (Author)
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 lithograph 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
Small colorful theatrical poster depicting a city square with a statue of the Virgin Mary where Jews are being attacked and slaughtered during a pogrom. The lithograph 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 offset lithograph poster of a town square with a fountain with a statue of the Virgin Mary in the center and a large church with three onion domes in the background. The square is filled with soldiers in green uniforms chasing and killing people with long knives. A cafe and wooden buildings line each side of the street.
Subjects
- Jews in art.
- Christianity and antisemitism--Russia--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism--Russia--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Persecution--Russia--Pictorial works.
- Massacres--Russia--History---20th century--Pictorial works.
- Pogroms--Russia--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism in art.
Genre
- Object
- Posters