Nazi propaganda poster of an unsavory looking Jew
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 33.750 inches (85.725 cm) | Width: 23.000 inches (58.42 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 poster 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
Antisemitic, Soviet poster produced by Nazi Germany after the invasion of the Soviet Union ca. 1941. It has a caricature of a disreputable Jewish man spreading the lies of the Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy. This poster 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
Offset color lithograph poster on paper with a black background with a large caricatures of a disreputable looking middle aged Jewish man with a yellow outlined Star of David filling the top half. He looks at the viewer with beady, baggy eyes, the left half closed in a link. His dark unibrow is raised in a pointed arch above his big nose and his thick, fleshy lips are parted in an insolent grin. He has dark, wavy short sidelocks, a thin mustache, and a short, scraggly beard. His large, thick flapped ears stick out beyond his short brimmed cap. The lower half of the poster has 3 columns of Ukrainian text in white ink. There are narrow white panels at the top and bottom with red text. The poster is adhered to slightly larger linen backing.
Subjects
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945--Posters.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Posters.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Posters.
- Antisemitism--20th century--Posters.
- Antisemitism in art.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters.
- Propaganda, Anti-Soviet--Posters.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
Genre
- Posters
- Object