Inscribed postcard of a fat pawnbroker in a red vest talking to a customer
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 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 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 illustration of a fat pawnbroker with stereotypical Jewish features speaking with a gentile customer inside a shop. He has hooded eyes, large lips, and a dark, forked beard and wears a red vest and pinky finger rings. The customer has blonde hair and wears a hat, coat, and trousers. The pawnbroker faces the viewer, smiles, and holds up both pinkies. The customer stands to his left, faces him, and holds a document on a counter between them. Merchandise shelves and a sign with MONEY LEND[ER] and a 3 hanging orb pawnbroker symbol are in the background. The back has 2 postmarks, a note and address, and a green halfpenny British postage stamp with an image of King George V.
back, top center, postmark, stamped, black ink : BLACKPOOL / [?] 45 [?]M / 15 NOV [?] back, top right, postmark, stamped, black ink : BLA / 7. / 15 back, left, cursive, black ink : Blackport / Just a line to say I / shall be seeing you / again in the course / of a day or two. We had / pretty rough weather last / weekend. Grand now I / am about to get back / Remember me to all Yours / Chas Ed. Fish back, right, cursive, black ink : Mr. F Horsfall / Restaurant / Albion St / Oldham
Genre
- Information Forms
- Object