Book
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Edelgarten Verlag (Publisher)
- Walter Rainer (Author)
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 book 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
Illustrated antisemitic book published in Nazi Germany in two editions. It has nasty, grostesque images, poems, and text of Jewish figures from myth and the Old Testament: Genesis, Book of Joshua, Book of Judges, Kings, Chronicles, and the Book of Esther. This is a 1940 paper back version based on the 1936 original. The book 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
Book ; paper cover with a typographic title within a color caricature in red, black, and white of a grotesque, exaggerated Jew in a clown costume with Stars of David, Hebrew letter accordion, and a large Star of David with a caricature of a Jewish man's face; 206 p. ; illustrations, color and b&w ; 24 cm. (9.375 x 6.125) Title page : Israel in Karicatur und Satire mit 126 Zeichungen des Verfassers von Walter Rainer / 1940 / Edelgarten-Verlag Horst Posern, Beuern.
Subjects
- Judaism--Controversial literature.
- Antisemitism in art--20th century.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--Germany--20th century.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany--20th century.
- Bible. Old Testament--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Antisemitism--Germany--20th century.
Genre
- Books and Published Materials
- Object