This postcard is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
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.
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The postcard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Inscribed postcard of a man holding cutlery complaining to a Jewish shopkeeper
Color illustration postcard of a gentile customer on the left in a store complaining to a Jewish shopkeeper behind a counter. He wears a top hat, striped scarf, and cloak, holds up white forks and spoons, and scowls. The shopkeeper has beady eyes, a large red nose, thick lips, and a long white beard and wears glasses, a red kippah, and a jacket. He gestures to the customer with his right hand and feigns surprise. In the background are shelves of brightly colored bundles on the right and an open door framing 3 people on the left. English text is at the bottom. The back has a postmark, note, address, and green halfpenny British postage stamp with an image of Edward VII. back, top right, postmark, stamped, black ink : CA[IN]OR / 615 PM / JA18 / 11 back, top right, cursive, black ink : Mr Clark / [?] of [H?]on / Cainor back, cursive, black ink : Cr]onby H oh / Please will you / Send the Pot and Steamer by / Mr [-?]luis Cash in the morning / for Mrs Hurst Crosby if on / I expect it by Glover this morn[ing]. back, top left, black ink : LX
overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)