Print with portraits of the people involved in the Tiszaeslar blood libel trial
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 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 print 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
Print with an eyewitness report and portraits of the parties involved in the blood libel trial in Tiszaeszlar, a small village in Hungary, in 1882-1883. A 14 year old Christian girl. Esther Solymosi, went missing and her mother and aunt reported that she had been kidnapped and butchered by local Jews. This grew into accusations of ritual murder to get her blood for making Passover Matzo. The local clergy and authorities zealously pursued this accusation with methods that included torture of witnesses. The subsequent trial, the first formal prosecution in Europe outside of Poland and Russia since the 16th century, attracted world wide attention. It provoked antisemitic demonstrations and fueled the creation of Hungary;'s first Anti-Semitic political party. After a six week trial, the six defendants were found not guilty. This print 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
- Trials (Murder)--Hungary--Tiszaeszlar.
- Antisemitism--Hungary--Tiszaeszlar--History--19th century.
- Blood accusation--Hungary--Tiszaeszlar--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Jews in art.
- Antisemitism in art.
- Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--Tiszaeslar--History--19th century.
Genre
- Art
- Object