Poster cartoon of a Jewish man, a Soviet hammer and sickle, and money bags
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 27.500 inches (69.85 cm) | Width: 19.000 inches (48.26 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
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. Poster has a cartoon of a Jewish man with the tools of Communism and commerce with which he strives to control the world. 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 Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government in collaboration with the German occupiers. 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
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Offset color lithograph poster on light brown paper with a cartoon of a bald man in a gray 3 piece suit with a gold Star of David waist fob on a yellow background. He grins above his double chin and has his thumbs in the armholes of his vest. His hands rest on his big, round stomach. He has comically exaggerated Jewish features: thick eyebrows and a large, tube shaped nose with a small black mustache. He squats atop a large black rectangle; on the left is a large, upright red hammer and sickle, symbol of the USSR; in front of his belly is a large red Star of David; on the right are 2 large white money sacks printed with 50000000. The black rectangle fills the remaining two-thirds of the poster and has 9 lines of white Serbian text in Cyrillic font. The poster has a narrow blank border and is adhered to slightly larger linen backing.
Subjects
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Serbia--20th century--Posters--Specimens.
- Antisemitism--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism--Serbia--History--20th century--Posters.
- Antisemitism in art.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Propaganda, Anti-Soviet--Posters--Specimens.
Genre
- Object
- Posters