Marionette of a bearded Jewish man with a checked skull cap and coat

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

Marionette of a bearded Jewish man with a checked skull cap and coat 

19th century marionette with a papier mache head of a Jewish man with a lage nose and pointed beard, dressed in a checked skull cap and long underdress, with a short black top coat. This marionette is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials. 

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