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  1. Ink drawing

    1. Leo Yeni collection

  2. Ink drawing

    1. Leo Yeni collection

  3. Ink and pencil drawings

    1. Leo Yeni collection

  4. Watercolor

    1. Leo Yeni collection

  5. Pencil sketch

    1. Leo Yeni collection

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    1. Leo Yeni collection

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  8. Pencil sketch

    1. Leo Yeni collection

  9. Porcelain drinking cup shaped as the head of a sneering Jewish man

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Small, colorful ceramic drinking cup in the shape of a Jewish man with an unpleasant facial expression. The piece is similar in style and production period to character mugs, which were ceramic mugs modeled on representations of popular characters. The man has thick eyebrows, hooded eyes, and fleshy red lips with curly hair; all stereotypical physical features commonly attributed to Jewish men. Stereotypes of the Jewish body are a common antisemitic trope. Malformities such as flat feet and bowed legs were used as justification to exclude Jews from the military, which was then used to indic...

  10. White porcelain figurine of a Jewish money changer in a gold striped vest

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Rockingham porcelain figurine of a Jewish money changer made in approximately 1820. He has a large nose and a long beard, both of which are stereotypical physical features commonly attributed to Jewish men. The Rockingham Works pottery factory was located in Swinton, England, on the estate of the Marquess of Rockingham. The factory produced a range of earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain pieces including tableware, figurines, and other decorative pieces. Money changers exchanged foreign coins or currency for those used locally. Many antisemitic depictions of Jews show them hoarding, counti...

  11. Cast brass figure of a Jew holding an ashtray

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Antisemitic ashtray modeled as Jewish man holding a large tray in is arms. The man has a large nose, a long beard, sidelocks, and thick eyebrows; all stereotypical physical features commonly attributed to Jewish men. The figure may be a representation of a Jewish peddler. Peddlers, often depicted carrying trays, were itinerant vendors who traveled the countryside and sold goods to the public. They usually traveled alone and carried their goods with them as they went. Peddling was a common occupation for young Jewish men during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most peddlers hoped their hard work...

  12. Return to Devil's Island of the Wandering Jew Illustrated newsheet satirizing Dreyfus's return from Devil's Island

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Antisemitic newsheet cartoon announcing "Le Retour de l'ile du Diable an Juif Errant" [The Return of the Wandering Jew from Devil's Island], the return of Alfred Dreyfus from the notorious French prison on Devil's Island for his second trial in 1899. The five cartoon panels depict Dreyfus in a Cinderella figure, accompanied by a band and mostly Jewish supporters who have sold France's honor and drowned the truth. The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal revolving around antisemitism that inflamed France in the late 19th century. Dreyfus was an army captain found guilty of treason in 1894 ...

  13. Poster of a pro-Dreyfus parlor game

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Poster of a gameboard for a parlor game about the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal revolving around antisemitism that inflamed late 19th century France. The game was created by Dreyfus supporters during the scandal. The winner is the player who reaches La Veritie or the Truth, represented as a naked woman rising from a well. Board symbols include broken tablets of the Rights of Man, and promotes the idea that hatred and discrimination against one miniority, the Jews, is an attack on the rule of law and the rights of all. Alfred Dreyfus was an army captain found guilty of treason in 1894 ...

  14. Jewish Equilibrium Anti-Jewish, anti-Allies poster of Churchill and FDR on a Jewish controlled seesaw

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Antisemitic propaganda poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941. It portrays Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sitting on a seesaw balanced on a globe, controlled by a caricatured Orthodox Jew. The poster was created for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition held in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, a...

  15. Bolshevik Freedom Poster of a naked, red Leon Trotsky seated on human skulls

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Anti-Jewish, anti-Soviet, Nazi propaganda poster distributed in battleground regions of Poland and Ukraine in 1943. It depicts a skeleton talking to a red, naked Leon Trotsky, who sits upon a pile of human skulls. During the war, Germany sought instances of Soviet perpetrated violence against Polish and local non-Jewish populations to exploit as graphic propaganda that would turn the locals against the Soviets and frighten them into supporting Germany. In 1943, the Germans exploited the discovery of mass graves documenting Soviet atrocities, such as the 1940 Katyn massacre of nearly 4500 Po...

  16. Bolshevik Freedom Illustration of a poster of a naked, red Leon Trotsky seated on human skulls

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Page removed from a book reproducing an anti-Jewish, anti-Soviet, Nazi propaganda poster that was distributed in battleground regions of Poland and Ukraine in 1943. It depicts a skeleton talking to a red, naked Leon Trotsky, who sits upon a pile of human skulls. During the war, Germany sought instances of Soviet perpetrated violence against Polish and local non-Jewish populations to exploit as graphic propaganda that would turn the locals against the Soviets and frighten them into supporting Germany. In 1943, the Germans exploited the discovery of mass graves documenting Soviet atrocities, ...

  17. Damaged scroll describing an anti-Jewish pogrom and memorializing those killed

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Vellum scroll with an eyewitness account and remembrance of those lost in a 1918 massacre in Novhorod-Siversʹkyi, Russia, (now Ukraine.) Written soon after the pogrom, it curses the perpetrators, recounts the events, and records a prayer for the dead and the names of the men, women, and children who were murdered. It is the only known eyewitness account of this event. On April 6, 1918, as Red Army troops retreated from the German Army, they attacked the Jews of Novhorod-Siversʹkyi, and 88 were killed. Hostility toward Jews was widespread in the Russian Empire, and the military was notorious...

  18. Poster of a evil looking Jewish man with snakes for a beard

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It has a caricature of a diabolical Jewish man with a long beard that turns into snakes with symbols for Capitalism, Communism and Freemasonry. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination with the intent to increase hatred against outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia had been invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of ...

  19. Poster of a caricatured Jew fiddling and dancing on human bones

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It depicts a grotesquely caricatured Jewish man dancing ecstatically on a huge pile of broken skeletons while playing a violin. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, and any outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Y...

  20. Poster with a giant caricatured Jewish man holding businessmen in a noose

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It depicts a grotesque caricature of an oversized Jewish man pulling a rope around the necks of six men in business clothes to show the ways Jews manipulate financial markets and have a stranglehold on business. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination with the intent to increase hatred against outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia had been invaded and di...