Inscribed postcard of a smiling Jewish man smoking a cigar

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

Inscribed postcard of a smiling Jewish man smoking a cigar 

overall: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) 

This postcard is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials. 

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Postcard with a color cartoon of a man wearing a blue cap and a shirt with a large, shiny jewel on the chest. He has a forked beard, yellow lips, and stereotypical Jewish features including shorty curly hair and a large nose. He smokes a cigar, smiles, and holds out his left hand in a shrug. English text is inscribed at the top and bottom. The back has 4 postmarks, an address, and a green 1 cent United States postage stamp with an image of Benjamin Franklin. See records 2016.184.757 and 2016.184.759 for other issues of this postcard. front, top, cursive, black ink : April 9th 1906 front, bottom, cursive, black ink : When I say that the mud / will be 36 inches deep next / spring / I[.]T.H. back, top left, postmark, stamped, black ink : TUNKHANNOCK, PA. / APR / 9 / [?]30 PM / 1906 / [R]EC’D. back, top center, postmark, stamped, black ink : TOWANDA, PA / APR 9 / 1230 [?] / 190[6] back, top center, postmark, stamped, black ink : EATONVILLE, / APR / 9 / 1906 / P.M. / P[A] 2 back, bottom, cursive, black ink : J. I. Wheelock, Esq., / Eatonville / Penna.