Wooden spring balanced figure of a Hasidic Jew

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 balancing figure was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family. 

Wooden spring balanced figure of a Hasidic Jew 

overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) 

Wooden spring balanced figure of a Hasidic Jew that sways as if davening. This balancing figure 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 man set on springs. It is painted and adorned with fur, resembling a Hassidic Jew dressed for the holidays.