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Start Over Collection William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection - Prints and Photographs Media Type Images Subject (Topic) Jews--Caricatures and cartoons

1. Hamburg, Jungfernsteig No. 7

Date:
1799
Description:
Black-and-white etched satire on attitudes toward vaccination. Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, is portrayed as a Jew. He holds a syringe labelled "Kuhpocken" (cowpox) and "Humanität" (humanity). Next to him sits a Jewish elder who has one foot on a money bag. Another Jew reads from a document labeled "Für Die Juden" (for the Jews), handed to him on a cushion embroidered with a Star of David by a non-Jewish man astride a sow. He is followed by a rabbi praying and another Jew. At left, a non-Jewish woman holds the sow's rope in one hand and, in the other, a paper labeled "Freiden Mädchen - Berliner Blätter" (prostitute - Berlin Gazette). The etching indicates that the publication of Jenner's work is a Jewish conspiracy.

2. Touching a tender spot

Date:
1901
Description:
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Ikey Rosenbeak: "Oh, Papa, do buy me some ohf dose peaudiful Roman candles--de man says dere is tree golden balls in every one ohf dem!"

3. A profitable dress habit

Date:
1897
Description:
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in the October 1897 edition of Funny Pictures, published by the Judge Publishing Company. The text reads : --Mrs. Cohen (sternly): "Shakop und Ikey, ged your heads under cover! Here gomes dot gonductdor to dake ub mein ticket alretty."

4. A hint to the Hebrews

Date:
1881
Description:
Caricature by Frederick Burr Opper published in the May 11, 1881, edition of Puck. The caption reads : "How they may make themselves independent of the watering place hotels."

5. Christmas morning--a slight mistake

Date:
1895
Description:
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in the December 1895 edition of Judge's Library, published by the Judge Publishing Company. The caption reads : --Waits (singing lustily): "Christians, awake!"

6. The cross has truly become a "shadow of death" to the Jew

Date:
1881
Description:
Caricature by Leon Barritt published in the March 1881 edition of the New England Pictorial. The associated article reads : "From an American point of view the opposition to the Jews, which has lately been revived in Germany, seems to be due partly to a survival of the unchristian spirit of medieval Christianity, but more immediately to the hatred which thrift always inspires in the unthrifty. The military ardor which has converted Germany into a great camp has drafted the flower of German youth into army barracks, and diverted the best energy of the people from productive pursuits. At the same time it has impoverished the masses by indirect heavy taxes to support the military establishment, and still heavier indirect taxes in cutting off the supply of productive labor. Though many Jewish youth in Germany have proved the native courage of the race on recent battlefields, the more peaceful instincts of the race have led them to seek in commerce and in the professions the distinction which the Christian youths have looked for in military and official positions. And now the cry is that the Jews monopolize the sources of wealth, and that they crowd the professions and other pursuits of peace and profit. The charge is doubtless largely true, but that fact is as much to the honor of the Jews as it is to the dishonor of those whose lower civilization has allowed them to be distanced in the competitions of peaceful industry, intelligence, persistence and thrift. If the physically and numerically weaker race can distance their stronger and more numerous competitors in the arts of peace, the fact must be taken as evidence that mind counts for more than stature, and thrift and labor for more than military ardor, in the free conflicts of modern civilization."

7. [Sketch of a pogrom]

Description:
Black-and-white drawings depicting scenes of a pogrom against Jews.

9. [Sketch of a pogrom]

Description:
Black-and-white drawing depicting a scene of a pogrom against Jews.

10. The Royal Exchange. Tom pointing out to Jerry a few of the primest features of Life in London.

Date:
1821
Description:
Hand-colored engraving of financiers gathered at the Royal Exchange in London. Several Jewish figures are present in the scene, including Sir Moses Montefiore in conversation with Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Drawn and engraved by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank, published London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones. From Life in London or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the Metropolis by Pierce Egan.