Advertisement for a racial science book on Jews as an inferior race
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 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 advertising flier 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
Advertisement for Entstehung der Menfchenraffen [Genesis of Human Races], a racial science book by Hans Weinert published in Nazi Germany. It has a photographic illustration of a Jewish man as an example of an inferior race. The advertising flier 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
Single sheet, illustrated advertising flier in German with the book title at top, Entstehung der menschenrassen, with a drawing and 2 duotone photographic illustrations on the left side and a column of text of the right side.
Subjects
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--History--Germany--20th century.
- Advertising fliers--Germany--History--20th century--Specimens.
- Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.
- Jews--Persecution--Germany--History--20th century.
Genre
- Information Forms
- Object