Issue of Simplicissimus with a cover of Roosevelt juggling skulls
Creator(s)
- Simplicissimus-Verlag-GmbH. (Publisher)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Erich Schilling (Artist)
- Verlag Knorr and Hirth Kommanditgesellschaft ()
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 journal 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 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
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Issue of the journal, Simplicissimus 62 v. ill. 39 cm. Biweekly 1964-1967 1. Jahrg., Nr. 1 (4. Apr. 1896)-49. Jahrg., Nr. 37 (13. Sept. 1944); Oct. 1954-3. Juni 1967. Notes: "Illustrierte wochenschrift." 3. Jahrg., Nr. 31-32 suppressed. Publication suspended Sept. 1944?-Sept. 1954. Volume numbering not used from 1954-1967; but issues consecutively numbered within each year. Appended to v. 4: Der Burenkrieg. (1900) 32p. Supplements accompany some issues.
People
- Schilling, Erich, 1885-1945.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda, Anti-American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda, Anti-British.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Periodicals.
- Propaganda, Anti-British--Germany--Periodicals.
- German wit and humor--Periodicals.
- Propaganda, Anti-American--Germany--Periodicals.
- World War, 1939-1945--German periodicals.
Genre
- Object
- Art