Magazine cover with a caricature of Orthodox Jews in a field of rabbits
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Simplicissimus-Verlag-GmbH. (Publisher)
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 magazine cover 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
Illustrated cover of the satirical magazine, Simplicissimus, year 7, No. 26, September 23, 1902. The cover headline, Polonisierung Weispreussens [The Polonization of Western Prussia] is illustrated with a caricature of three old Orthodox Jewish men quarreling in a landscape overrun with rabbits. The image plays upon reactionary fears of the mass immigration of East European Jews into Prussia in the early 20th century. This journal 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
Subjects
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--Germany--20th century.
- Antisemitism in art--Germany--20th century.
- Germany--Politics and government--1871-1918--Periodicals.
- Antisemitism--Pictorial works.
- Caricatures and cartoons--Jews.
- Jews in art--Germany--20th century.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany--Periodicals.
Genre
- Object
- Art