Cover of a humor journal of French woman and a Jewish pawn shop owner
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
Creator(s)
- Journal Amusant (Publisher)
- Mars (Illustrator)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Pierre Vebon (Editor)
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 French 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
Cover page of Journal Amusant, Journal Illustre, Journal d'images, journal comique, critique, satirique, etc. no. 1011, January 15, 1876, 29th year, a French illustrated humor weekly with a cover featuring a young, pretty Frenchwoman dressed in figure revealing clothes selling her jewelry to a Jewish pawn shop owner. He wears a skullcap and examines a ring through his magnifier. On the glass behind it says, Tèmantez le Pere Isaac, Achat D'or, d' argent et de diamants [Bring it to Father Isaac / Buys gold, money, and diamonds.] It is titled, Etrennes et souhaits - huit jours apres [Gifts and wishes - eight days after.] This French 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
Cover page from a newspaper with a caricature of a Gentile Lady selling her jewelry to a Jew in his Pawn Shop.
Subjects
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--France--Periodicals.
- Jews in art--France-19th century--Pictorial works.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
- French wit and humor--Periodicals--19th century--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Art
- Object