The press in the USA is 97% in Jewish hands Poster of a Jewish publisher bursting from the New York Times
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 24.125 inches (61.278 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 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
Antisemitic propaganda poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition held in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It depicts Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the Jewish publisher of the New York Times from 1935-1961, breaking through the front page of the newspaper. The poster denounces the hidden Jewish influence that corrupts the news. This is ironic as Sulzberger as editor is now viewed as having downplayed the antisemitism of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust that destroyed European Jewry. 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. Yugoslavia was 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 of Milan Nedic 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 an illustration in black with blue accents of a man in a light blue striped shirt and striped tie bursting through a newspaper captioned The New York Times. His upper body is seated within a large black hole surrounded by columns of faint gray text. He is balding, with a large nose and ears, and a fat protruding lower lip. He is turned slightly left, speaking and gesturing with the left hand, right hand clasping the unseen arm of a chair. There is Serbian text at the bottom. It is adhered to slightly larger linen backing.
People
- Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Jewish publishers--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Antisemitism--Serbia--History--20th century--Posters.
- Antisemitism--Pictorial works.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--20th century--Posters--Specimens.
- Newspapers in art.
Genre
- Object
- Posters