In the mirror of critical self-reflection Magazine cartoon of Roosevelt as a gangster controlled by a Jew
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 8.375 inches (21.273 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 periodical sheet 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 periodical sheet 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
Double sided illustration removed from a periodical. One side has a full page cartoon of a middle aged man leaning back before and studying his reflection in a large oval mirror. The man, Franklin D. Roosevelt, has a long face, slicked back hair, a smooth, straight forehead with arched eyebrows, pince nez, a straight patrician nose, a pipe between his thin lips, and wears a suit. His reflection is a caricature of a gangster, also leaning back, with unslicked hair, a furrowed forehead with overhanging brows, large worried eyes, a lumpy nose, a cigarette held by a thick, protruding lip, stubble, and wears a turtleneck and jacket. Filling the right side of a mirror is a caricature of an Orthodox Jewish man, with black skullcap, frizzy hair with stringy sidelocks, big, protruding ears, and a huge pointed nose. He is looking sideways at Roosevelt with half closed eyes and a sly grin. To the right of the mirror is a large shadow cast by Roosevelt. The Polish caption is at the bottom. The back page has typed Polish text: a long opening paragraph, followed by 5 quotes by prominent British men: Lord Byron, Admiral Derby, Tomasz Carlyle, Lord Karol Beresford, Bernard Shaw.
People
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subjects
- Antisemitism--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Nazi propaganda--Pictorial works.
- Anti-Americanism--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda, German.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
Genre
- Object
- Art