Poster warning people to beware Jewish-Soviet lies
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 19.750 inches (50.165 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 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
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 lithograph poster on light brown paper with an illustration in black ink in the upper right of the head of a man with stereotyped Jewish features: an overlarge, hooked nose, and large, protruding ears, with a cap with a Soviet 5 point star. His hand shields his mouth as he speaks to 2 men from the waist up, in the middle and lower left. The center man has short black hair and a black jacket and looks warily at the Jew, as he frowns and rips a piece of paper, one of many falling from above. The man at the bottom wears a ushanka, a winter hat with ear flaps, and has turned away, with his left arm extended backward, palm out, rejecting the Jew's words. At the top is Cyrillic Russian text.
Subjects
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Posters.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Propaganda, Anti-Soviet--Posters.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters.
- Antisemitism--20th century--Posters.
Genre
- Object
- Posters