Inscribed postcard of a drunk man at a pawnshop at night

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 drunk man at a pawnshop at night 

overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 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 on the left standing outside a pawnshop. He has a pointy red nose and wears wrinkled clothes. He rings the doorbell and looks up at an angry man leaning out of a window. He has stereotypical Jewish features, including dark, curly hair and a large nose, and wears red striped pajamas. A 3 orb pawnbroker symbol hangs to his right. English text is at the top. The back has 2 postmarks, a note and address, and a red 1 penny British postage stamp with an image of King George V. back, top center, postmark, stamped, black ink : GREAT YARMOUTH / 3 – PM / 8 SE[P] / 1927 back, left, cursive, black ink : Dear Beatrice / Having a good time / at Yarmouth have just / been for a swim lovely + warm / here been to Cro[m?]er + Lowestoft / on bike interesting fishing / quay. W[e?]nt to Felix[stowe?] / on steamer yesterday + a goo[d] / day enjoyed the trip is about / 50 miles [from] here to [?] / Grand weather . Charlie back, right, cursive, black ink : Mrs W. Rimpe[r?]ten / St Peter’s Cottage / [?]goldmill, / N. Skegness