This postcard is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
Postcard with a color image of a boy wearing a red tam-o’-shanter holding a fish on a plate. He stands on the left, looks down at it, and smiles. A fat man with stereotypical Jewish features, including a large nose, watches him skeptically. He stands in the doorway of a pawnshop with a hanging 3 orb pawnbroker symbol and signs advertising I. MOSES. PAWNBROKER and JEWELLER. English text is at the bottom. The back has a postmark, note, address, and green halfpenny British stamp with an image of King George V. back, top center, postmark, stamped, black ink : BRIGHTO[N] / 6 30 PM / [FEB?] 23 [14?] back, top right, postmark, stamped, black ink : BRIGH[TON] / 6 30 [?] / [FEB 23 14?] back, left, cursive, black ink : Dear Chas. / Sorry to have kept you / waiting so long for a letter / we are rather busy just / now. How do you like this / rough weather, are you really / coming home at Easter, Ill write / letter later. with fondest love to / you all yours Nellie back, right, cursive, black ink : Mr. C. J. Hole. / Lower House / Easington / N. Wallingford / Oxon
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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 boy showing a fish to a pawnbroker
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.