Wooden figure of a Jew with a removable head to use a pipe

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. 

The pipe was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family. 

Wooden figure of a Jew with a removable head to use a pipe 

overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) 

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

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Carved wooden figure of a Jewish; the head is the bowl of a tobacco pipe which is easily removed from the body. a. Wooden pipe with a bowl carved int eh shaed of aJewish man with an oversize nose, pointed beard, and crumpled top hat, like a peddler. b. Wood stand with a carved body of a man in a long coat. Where the head would be is a hollow tube shaped hole in which the pipe is inserted. His hands have small holes cut through, perhaps to hold matches.