Magazine cover with a caricature of Orthodox Jews in a field of rabbits

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

Magazine cover with a caricature of Orthodox Jews in a field of rabbits 

overall: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) 

Illustrated cover of the satirical magazine, Simplicissimus, year 7, No. 26, September 23, 1902. The cover headline, Polonisierung Weispreussens [The Polonization of Western Prussia] is illustrated with a caricature of three old Orthodox Jewish men quarreling in a landscape overrun with rabbits. The image plays upon reactionary fears of the mass immigration of East European Jews into Prussia in the early 20th century. This journal is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials. 

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