Book
Creator(s)
- Itzig F. Stern (Author)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- F.W. Goedsche (Publisher)
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 book 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
Two books bound in one volume of purportedly Jewish parables and tales written by a non-Jewish judge, Holzschuher, under the pseudonym Itzig Feitel Stern. It ridicules Jewish life and is written as a parody. Mostly in German, with some Yiddish or Yiddish transliteration, or some variant. It is designed to be read from right to left (or back to front) as if it were a Hebrew book. This book 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
Book ; brown and green marbled paper, gilt on spine: Gedichter, Perobeln unn Schnoukes: Book 1, 107 p. ; Book 2, 143 p., v- xvi ; illustrated (1 color, bk 2) 19 cm. (7.125 x 4.375 in.). Title page, Book 1: Gedichter, Perobeln unn Schnoukes fer unnere Leut. A?. Roretät poetische Parleschnur um de Kalle ihren Hals vun Izak Feitel Stern. [1832] Back page: Druck von E. Schumann in Schneeberg; Title page, Book 2: Gedichter, Perobeln unn Schnoukes Zweyter Thal. Die Schabbes Lamp vun pollische Messing : mit ächt koschere Schimen / ahngizündt vun Jtzig [sic] Feitel Stern. (Meissen : F.W. Goedsche, 1835). With this is bound: Das Schabbes-Gärtle vun unnere Leut. : Chittische Meloche / von Issig Feitel Stern. 4. Aufl. Meissen : F.W. Goedsche, 1851. Notes: dedication to Book 2: Mein Freund Lammle, in dienste ben harrn Baruch vun Hersch gemibbent vun Itzig Feisel Stern. Tipped in back: 2 pages, trifold sheet music and lyrics: Schir Erefschabbes ouder die Derwarting anSchabbes Vorobend nad Jomlide min Hamelach by C.S. Mahy. Pencilled markings
People
- Stern, Itzig Feitel, 1796-1861.
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials