Book
Creator(s)
- Samuel Stern Susskind (Author)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Michael Joseph Speyer (Author)
- Bär Löw Isaak (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 bound volume 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
Rebound version of a 1750 proclamation regulating the movements and activities of Jewish money dealers who exchanged foreign currency in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The government was acting on reports of Jewish money changers clipping the gold and altering the weight and value of the currency, thereby creating inflation. This bound volume 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, facsimile(?), modern bindingmm, ; 14 p. and List A [5 p. unnumbered] ; 33 cm. [12.500 x 8.250] Title page: Species Facti Ad Causam Ausschusses derer pro Clementissimo Absolutorio und Commissions-Kosten Gelder avanciren müssenden Franckfurthis. Wechsel-Juden Contra Beer Löw Isaac, Michael Joseph Speyer, und Süßkind Samuel Stern : Cum Adj. sub Lit. A. B. & C. Notes: pencil : Contemporary binding with Hebrew text on spine ; pencilled markings
Subjects
- Moneylenders--History--Germany--18th century.
- Antisemitism--Germany--18th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--History.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials