Russian Jews in a Hamburg Tavern Illustration of Russian Jewish families waiting to emigrate
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Hugo Fritzmann (Artist)
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
Double sided illustration removed from a periodical. On one side there is a black ink drawing on paper of Jewish people arranged in small groups inside a tavern, many depicted with stereotypically thick eyebrows and large noses. On the left, a man smoking a pipe and a man with mutton chops stand near a woman, her arm wrapped protectively around an elderly man with a cane. He sits with his back to another man, who is seated in right profile with a child leaning against him. He looks up at a man standing opposite him in a top hat between a man in a long coat and a seated woman holding a child. On the far right, 2 men face the barman behind the counter. There are several loosely sketched figures in the background. The publication information is printed at the top and title is printed below. On the back, 3 partial columns of German text reviewing regional art and entertainment activities are printed in Fraktur font, with the publication information at the top.
Subjects
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Germany--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism in art--Germany--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Jews in art--Germany--20th century--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Art
- Object