The Corn and Wine Jew Engraving of Jews on a wagon carrying wine and corn
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 12.625 inches (32.068 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
This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Engraving in black ink on paper depicting 2 bearded men in profile with stereotypically large noses and fleshy lips and round patches on their clothing identifying them as Jews. They wear a circular scraper and watering can as hats and hold vine-wrapped flag poles, coins, and a goblet as coins spill from their money pouches. They are seated back to back on an enormous barrel on a wagon carrying wine barrels, corn sacks, and a fox pulling a net full of farmers behind as it is driven toward a large, toothed creature’s mouth on the right by a horned creature with hooves. In the background, men and horned creatures work in a barn in front of a destroyed corn field beneath storm clouds and a wine cellar in front of a withered vineyard beneath the sun and a flaming sword. False German biblical verses and Latin phrases are recorded within the image in Fraktur font. The title and additional verses are printed above and below the image.
back, top right corner, pencil : 29
Genre
- Object
- Art