Color print depicting a detailed, six panel cartoon framed within a storefront frame. The top 3 panels depict the unwary window shopper; the 3 bottom panels depicts 2 Jewish salesman plotting. As the policeman looks in the store window, a trap door opens beneath him, and he falls into the basement where the 2 salesmen wait and then fit him with a suit. Filling the left side, next to the storefront, is a man is a mismatched plaid suit and worn shoes. He has Jewish features, a large nose and curly hair, and his hands are poised like grasping claws; below him is the caption: THE PULLER-IN OF THE PAST; on the right side is a simple faced man in an ill fitting raincoat, with an umbrella and carpetbag, captioned THE PREY. The artist's name Zimmerman is printed on the left and the publisher, Judge, at the top.
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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 print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)
Print of an antisemitic caricature by Eugene Zimmerman, published in late 19th century New York. It has a cartoon panel detailing stereotyped, unscrupulous practices by Jewish salesman preying on unsuspecting window shoppers. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Antisemitic caricature of a Jewish clothing salesmen hustling customers