Painted, sheet metal balancing figure of a Rabbi reading a book
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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 metalwork figure was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
approximately 1850
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Painted, sheet metal balancing figure of a Rabbi reading a book
overall: Height: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm)
Hand crafted, painted sheet metal balancing figure of a Rabbi reading from a book. When gently pushed, the figure appears to daven [pray.] This metalwork figure is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
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