Color print satirizing a Gentile wanting a circumcision to cure roundworm
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 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 caricature 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
Satiric print of a Gentile family coming to a rabbi who is also mohel, a Jewish man who performs circumcisions, to request a circumcisions to cure trichininosis, an infection caused by roundworm. This object 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
Colored caricature depicting a Gentile family comes to a Mohel to be circumcised believing that this would prevent the roundworm.
Subjects
- Jews in art--France--19th century--Specimens.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
- France--Manners and customs--1870-1940--Caricatures and cartoons.
- French wit and humor--Periodicals--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Satire, French--Periodicals--19th century.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--France--Specimens.
Genre
- Object
- Art