The Way of the Red Sea is a Way of Blood! Poster of Jewish bankers walking through a parted red sea of blood
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 42.750 inches (108.585 cm) | Width: 31.125 inches (79.058 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 poster 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
Italian wartime poster with a scene of Jewish bankers, some with American and British flags on their top hats, loaded with money bags, crossing through a path with red fields of dead Italian and British soldiers lining the sides. This poster 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
Subjects
- Propaganda, Anti-British--Posters.
- World War, 1939-19845--Propaganda, Italian.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Italy--20th century--Posters.
- Jewish bankers--Caricatures and cartoons--20th century--Posters.
- Italy--History--1914-1945--Posters.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--Italy--20th century.
- Anti-Americanism--Posters.
Genre
- Object
- Posters