Collection: William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection - Prints and Photographs / Subject (Topic): Jews--Caricatures and cartoons, Antisemitism--Caricatures and cartoons - Lowcountry Digital Library Catalog Search Search Results

Description:: Caricature by Gustave Frison depicting a Jewish stockbroker haggling over the terms of a trade outside the Paris Stock Exchange. He is portrayed as speaking French with a Yiddish accent.

Description:: Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Dr. Smith: "Your husband's prostration is due to business--overwork. You must give him this antimony prescription." --Mrs. Cohen (in a whisper): "Sh! Don'd let mein husband hear you say dot again. I subbose it vill do him good, but don'd let him hear der name ohf dot remedy--he vouldn't take it."

Description:: Hand-colored etching depicting a funeral procession with the title "the triumph of youth." The faces of all of the individuals depicted have been shaded black.

Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte. In German, the text reads : --"Herrrr! Nehmen Sie die schlechten Lederstühl, dies sind Kajütenstühl!" --"Was, dies seind kan Jüdestühl? Hob ich doch ezahlet so gut als an Christ!" In English, the text reads : --"Sir! Take the bad leather chair, these are cabin chairs!" --"What, these aren't Jews' chairs? I paid for it just as well as a Christian!"

Description:: In the town square, one man holds up the Ten Commandments; another ducks under a prayer shawl. In German, the text reads : "Dieses hat euch Gott gegeben. / Wollt Ihr's rein verehren lieben, / Wird Euch Heilin diesem Leben. / Und Gottseligkeit einst drüben! / Laßt das Alte uns verfechten! / Nichts von Ehren nichts von Lieben, / Nichts von Freiheit nichts von Rechten; / Leichter fischt es sich im Trüben." In English, the text reads : "This was given to you all by God. / Do you all want to love and honor its purity, / It will heal you all in this life. / And God's blessing is over there! / Allow the old to advocate for us! / Nothing from honor, nothing from love, / Nothing from freedom, nothing from rights; / It is easier to fish in the fog."

Description:: Caricature. The text in German reads : --Bauer: "Wolf - wie kimmts doch, daß ihr Juden o' Schwain nit loide könnt?" --Jude: "Is doch nich immer der Fall - wir Zwa sein doch die besten Freunde." In English, the text reads : --Peasant: "Wolf - how is it, that you Jews can't stand pigs?" --Jew: "That isn't always the case - we two are the best of friends."

Description:: Donnerstag (Thursday). In German, the text reads : "Der Tag an den mann wird gemahnt / Die Schulden zu bezahlen, / Kommt oft so schnell herbeigerant / Das mann erschrickt zumalen; / Wenn mann Just nicht bei Gelde ist, / Ach! da macht einem Jud und Christ. Wahrhaftig Donnerstäge." In English, the text reads : "The day on which one is reminded / To pay the debts, / It often sneaks up on one so quickly, / That one becomes the picture of shock. / When one doesn't have access to the money, / Oh! As does a Jew and a Christian."

Description:: Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Papa Goldberg: "You haff bin by der synagogue, yes? Vell, I asks you a kervestion. Vat are der t'ree graces?" --Ikey (confidently): "Gold, silver und diamonds! Popper, ask me a hard one."

Description:: Caricature by Louis M. Glackens published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Isaacs: "Dere, now, I vill not vaste time mit dose things no more. Health or no health, time ish moneysh, and moneysh is vot I vos after." 2. --Mrs. Isaacs: "Oh, vot shall I do! Der doctor says as he vill die of der fatness if he don't take der dump-pell exercise." 3. --Mrs. Isaacs: "I haf it! I vill draw some plans und dake dem to dot iron foundries. He shall dake dot exercises." 4. --Mrs. Isaacs: " Come up in dot exercise room, Morris." --Mr. Isaacs: "I vill go, but no exercise for me on your life not." 5 --Mr. Isaacs: "Oh, Repecca! You vos one of dose ingeniuses. I could keep dis up all tay."

Description:: Caricature by Grant E. Hamilton published in Judge. The text reads : --Ikey Ikestein loves to skate and do that backward roll, it makes such a pretty figure on ice. --We have at last found out why Silverstein is so fond of the violin. --Those long German pipes seem to be the favorite with Mr. Levy; he dotes on the one with a very crooked stem, the design is so good. --What Mr. Cohen saw when his clothing-shop burnt out. --Mr. Moses bought this piano because the foot-pedal caught his eye. --Mr. McFudd adapted the shape of his pretzels to it. --Goldberg had a bicycle built to suit his own ideas of beauty. --Mrs. Levi compliments herself on the way she trained the vines on the porch of her house.

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