Katz Ehrenthal collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544589
• English
• overall: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 14.625 inches (37.148 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Antisemitic newsheet cartoon announcing "Le Retour de l'ile du Diable an Juif Errant" [The Return of the Wandering Jew from Devil's Island], the return of Alfred Dreyfus from the notorious French prison on Devil's Island for his second trial in 1899. The five cartoon panels depict Dreyfus in a Cinderella figure, accompanied by a band and mostly Jewish supporters who have sold France's honor and drowned the truth. The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal revolving around antisemitism that inflamed France in the late 19th century. Dreyfus was an army captain found guilty of treason in 1894 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544590
• English
• overall: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Announcement issued by the German occupying authorities in France ordering the Jewish population of Champigny-sur Marne, a Paris suburb, to get their ID cards stamped at the Mayor's office by October 2, 1940. This handbill is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544591
• English
• overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Lithograph by Henri Daniel Plattel of a Jewish peddler selling relics to a man with a Napoleonic military eagle tattoo. It was published in Miroir caricatural, a popular 19th century French series. This color print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544592
• English
• overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

French antisemitic caricature of a cariactured Jewish businessman dressed to show off his wealth. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544593
• English
• 1670
• overall: Height: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) | Width: 18.750 inches (47.625 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Antisemitic engraving, Histoire du sacré jubilé [History of the saced anniversary] about an annual Belgian Catholic celebration of the burning of Jews. These four scenes are illustrated: Jonathan giving money to Jean de Louvaine; Jean breaking into the Chapel of St. Catherine; Jews stabbing the communion hosts; and Jews being condemned by the Tribunal of Brussels. This pamphlet is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544594
• English
• 1908
• overall: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Advertisement for the antisemitic journal "L' Action Francaise" with a drawing of a Jewish man hanged from a lamp post. This advertising flier is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544595
• English
• overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Satiric print of a Gentile family coming to a rabbi who is also mohel, a Jewish man who performs circumcisions, to request a circumcisions to cure trichininosis, an infection caused by roundworm. This object is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544596
• English
• overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 15.125 inches (38.418 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Rotogravure print, Aux Abattoirs [At the Slaughterhouse] showing elegantly dressed French women and gendarmes "drinking the blood of freshly slaughtered animals. It seems that the French gentle folk liked to drink fresh kosher blood at the Kosher slaughter house - this being considered more sanitary." This is an unusual example of a popular print depicting Jewish customs, such as kosher butchering methods, in a positive way and as a something good for all people, not just a Jewish aberration. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual mat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544597
• English
• overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Cover page of Journal Amusant, Journal Illustre, Journal d'images, journal comique, critique, satirique, etc. no. 1011, January 15, 1876, 29th year, a French illustrated humor weekly with a cover featuring a young, pretty Frenchwoman dressed in figure revealing clothes selling her jewelry to a Jewish pawn shop owner. He wears a skullcap and examines a ring through his magnifier. On the glass behind it says, Tèmantez le Pere Isaac, Achat D'or, d' argent et de diamants [Bring it to Father Isaac / Buys gold, money, and diamonds.] It is titled, Etrennes et souhaits - huit jours apres [Gifts and...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544598
• English
• 1881
• overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Cartoon from a late 19th century French humor weekly, Petit journal pour rire, with a cartoon of a Jewish suitor, who, when told by a woman that he is ugly, remains confident, because, as he tells her, his father is rich. This illustration is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544599
• English
• overall: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Satirical color print, Das Höchste in der Kunst, Gabriel Max übertroffen [The Supreme Art exceeding Gabriel Max]. It depicts an old Orthodox Jewish man with few teeth eating a pork sausage. The image ridicules his appearance as well as a hypocrite for eating pork, which is forbidden by kosher dietary rules. The reference to Gabriel Max may refer to the successful Austrian painter, Gabriel von Max. In addition to religious works and portraits, Max was known for his paintings of monkeys, often in human poses. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisem...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544600
• English
• overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Antisemitic advertising flier for the Der Stürmer newspaper showing photographic images of the “devilish grins” of Jews. The text claims that Jews are born criminals, who are incapable of laughter, and can only smile nefariously, which implies their untrustworthy nature. Two versions of the flier were published: this one with red lettering and an advertisement on the bottom, and one with black-and-white text without a bottom advertisement. The antisemitic newspaper was founded by Julius Streicher and published from 1923 to 1945. Striecher used the paper as a platform to foment public hatred...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544601
• English
• 1775
• overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Colored engraving of a Jewish peddler or junk dealer created in 18th century Vienna. It was one of the illustrations included in the book, Der Kaufruf in Wien. 40 Wiener Typen nach dem Kupferstichwerk aus dem Jahre 1775, a visual survey of Viennese types. Other entries included other peddles and dealers of various items including beer, canvas, carpets, cheese, ink, milk, rosaries, as well as a day laborer, a laundress, and a straw cutter. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544602
• English
• overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Color lithograph, Der Handel [The Trade] of a Jewish peddler negotiating with a non-Jewish man, made in Wissembourg, also known as Weissenburg, in the Alsatian region, then part of Germany, but now France. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544603
• English
• overall: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544605
• English
• 1921
• overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544606
• English
• 1921
• overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544607
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544608
• English
• overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn544609
• English
• overall: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.