Unused postcard for comedy act Potash and Perlmutter
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
Creator(s)
- David Allen & Sons (Publisher)
- 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 postcard 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
This postcard 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
Postcard with a color cartoon of 2 men with exaggerated Jewish facial features standing next to each other in front of a white backdrop. The man on the left has brown hair, beard, and mustache and a large nose and wear a coat, trousers, and pinky rings. He faces the viewer and holds his right hand above his head, left hand forward. The other man is fat, with a hook nose, dark curly hair, and thick, lips. He wears a pince nez, derby, red, vest, and trousers. He faces his partner and holds up both hands, shrugging. The cartoon has a black border and a black panel in the bottom third, with an umbrella with an upside down top hat around the middle near an English caption.
Subjects
- Jews in art.
- Jewish wit and humor--Great Britain--20th century.
- Jews--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
- Jewish comedians--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Antisemitism--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Object
- Information Forms