The First Credit Illustrated tale of the progress of a Jewish youth's first loan

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

The First Credit Illustrated tale of the progress of a Jewish youth's first loan 

overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) 

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

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Print of an illustration, likely a page from a periodical, with 9 vignettes arranged in 3 rows of 3. In the top left, a man with stereotypical Jewish features: curly hair, a large nose, and thick lips, stands in left profile holding a top hat, with his head turned toward the viewer. In the top center, he is in a store, showing a balding fat man behind a counter a letter. In the top right, the fat man leans down to inspect the letter under a loupe. In the middle left, the Jewish man, holding his top hat in front of him, leans his head through a partially open doorway. In the middle center, he is in a store facing away from the viewer towards a bearded man in a checkered suit who holds a length of fabric over a counter. In the middle right, a man in a dark jacket in right profile walks with long strides down a street. In the bottom left, the fat man faces forward with his mouth wide open. In the bottom center, the man in the black jacket bows towards the Jewish man who shakes hands with the bearded man over a counter. In the bottom right, the Jewish man, grinning, wearing his top hat, and holding a large parcel under each arm, stands in left profile with his head turned toward the viewer. Three columns of black text are printed on the back.