Apikoyres Der apikoyres (New York, New York) [Magazine]
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Communist Party of the United States of America. Idishe byuro. (Author)
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 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
Issue of a Yiddish magazine, Apikoyres [heretic or agnostic] publkshed by the Communist Party of the United States,. Idishe byuro. This issue has a cover illustration of an enormous Jewish banker riding the back of a shabbily dressed Orthodox Jew reading a book, using his head tefillin as reins. This magazine 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
Journal, magazine, 1 v. , September 1934; 31 p. ; 31 cm. [12.000 x 9.375 in.] ???? ????????? :? ??? ??????????? ???? ??????? : ??????????? ? ????? ? ?????? Author: Communist Party of the United States of America. Idishe byuro. Publisher: Aroysgegebn fun der Idisher byuro bam Tsent?ral-k?omit?et? fun der K?omunist?isher part?ey, 1934- Pencilled markings
Subjects
- Caricatures and cartoons--Jews--Periodicals.
- Yiddish language--Periodicals.
- Jewish bankers--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Jewish communists--United States--Periodicals.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Judiasm--Controversial literature.
- Satire, Yiddish.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials