Antisemitic cartoon satirizing a Frenchman expressing pity for Jews

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

Antisemitic cartoon satirizing a Frenchman expressing pity for Jews 

overall: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) 

Satirical news cartoon of a pear headed Frenchman expressing pity for"these poor Jew", while behind him a caricature of a Jewish man in a tallit with an evil looking face is burning a globe with a stack of currency. The use of a pear-shaped head to insult and make fun of authority figures became a staple of French satire after Daumier used it to lampoon the King in 1942. This cartoon is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials. 

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Editorial cartoon clipped from newspaper