Antisemitic cartoon of an oversize Wandering Jew
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 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 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
The print 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
Double sided, black ink illustration on paper removed from a publication. One side has a caricature of a giant Jewish man in left profile wearing a black skullcap and gripping a cane. He has pointed ears, a stringy beard, and stereotypical features: bushy eyebrows, hooded eyes, a big nose, fleshy lips, and curled sidelocks. His long coat flaps around his legs as he strides across the landscape, his right leg forward, his left leg raised behind. He moves toward a bright town beside a winding river on the lower left, and away from a city beneath a dark, heavily lined sky on the right. There is German text at the top and the edges are taped. The back page depicts 6 caricatures, a German conversation about a sleepwalker, and an office cartoon.
Genre
- Art
- Object