Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in the July 16, 1879, edition of Puck. The associated article reads in part : "The trouble with this country is that religion is getting to be altogether too much mixed up with affairs political and social; and the latest phase of this newest departure in American matters is the effort to populate the great waste places of the West with 'colonies' of certain religionists... Instead of little hamlets budding into thrifty villages, and blossoming into bustling cities, with the Methodist spire rising up into the same blue Heaven with the Catholic cross, while the dome of the Synagogue flashes between them--we are to have sectarian villages made up, as the case may be, exclusively either of Jews or Catholics..."
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.
Hand-colored lithograph depicting a Jew with stolen goods in his pockets. Lithograph by Victor Ratier after a caricature by Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers.
Black-and-white lithographed caricature depicting the publication of the "Juif errant" in the Constitutionnel trying to pull the fat and immobile newspaper. Eugène Sue's Le Juif errant was published serially in the the newspaper Le Constitutionnel from June 25, 1844, to August 26, 1845. Caricature by Honoré Daumier. In French, the text reads : "Allons! en route, mon vieux, en route........ si moi je ne parviens pas à vous faire marcher c'est que décidément votre infirmité sera par trop constitutionnelle!..." In English, the text reads : "Come on, old man, let's go, come on! If I can't even make you walk, then your infirmity is really a constitutional problem..." Plate 103 of the series Actualités, published in the March 31, 1844, edition of Le Charivari. Printed by Aubert & Cie., published by Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse.
Caricature depicting a Jewish man called "Monowski" working as a peddler after two years in the United States. This card is the second of a set of four trade cards from the series "Our New Citizens" published by Geo.Topp.
Caricature depicting a Jewish family on the water in Manhattan Beach. The text reads : "Ah Rachel I wud'nt sthay in dot vouter - I dink I go out and look on de vouter." Caricature printed by Tobin N.Y.
Caricature depicting the store of "Grabheimer the great American tailor." The text reads : "Vy Isaac! Dat is Mister Shones from Mobile, your prudder said you should gif Mister Shones a good pargain." Caricature printed by Tobin N.Y.
Black-and-white lithographed caricature depicting stockjobbers hoping to catch inside news after the first signs of a war in Italy appear in the newspaper. Lithograph by Destouches after a caricature by Honoré Daumier. Plate 10 of the series Actualités, published in the February 19, 1859, edition of Le Charivari.
In French, the text reads :
--Ne craignez rien ......, nous n'aurons pas la guerre ! ....
--Quelles preuves pouvez vous me donner?....
--Comment des preuves.... j'en ai mille.... tenez, mon cher.... allez place de la concorde...., dirigez vous du côté du quai et vous verrez qu'on n'arme seulement pas la frégate-école!.... In English, the text reads :
--Don't' you worry, there will be no war!
--What proof do you have for that?
--What do you mean proof.... there are thousands... for example... you go down to Place de la Concorde... in direction of the Quai and you will note that not even the frigate-school has been called to arms!
Caricature by Walter H. Gallaway published in Puck. The text reads : 1 "Dey cosd only ninedy cends und sell for fife tollars." 2 "Max, I tells you ve can'd lose." 3 "Und I asks Cohenstein, 'Do ve ged a discound?'" 4 "It vas all in Rachel's name, efery cend." 5 "Now ve vill talk ofer dot brobosition you haf." 6 "Dere's noting in it at der brice."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : The 16th of March. --Baxterstein: "Ikey, mine sohn, if ve don'dt preddy soon sell some ohf dese clodings your papa vill be a ruined Hebrew." The 17th of March. --Ikey (his son): "Nefer mindt dot ruinness, papa. Ve vill sell dose handtsome clodings to dose Irish peebles vhen der parade passes dis vay."
Caricature by Frederick Burr Opper published in the November 19, 1884, edition of Puck. The caption reads : "Probable effect of this announcement upon timid people who think they resemble him."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : 1 "How our friend Goldberg's hands look when he first notices a little shower coming up." 2 "But it is only natural that they should assume this shape if it rained MONEY."
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."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Miss Timmid: "Why are you so positive that these bathing-suits are fast colors?" --Isaacs: "Because my vife und daughter Sadie haff vorn every suit in dot lot at four different vatering places."
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."
Caricature depicting a Jewish family on the water in Manhattan Beach. The text reads : "Mister! Vas costen to go in dot vouter?" Caricature printed by Tobin N.Y.
Caricature by Emil Flohri published in Judge. The text reads : --Frayed Fagin: "I dreamed last night dat I found a t'ousand dollars." --Hardened Hobbs: "W'ot did yer do wid it?" --Frayed Fagin: "Chucked it away. I knew if I tried ter spend it I'd only wake up."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Doctor: "You can live only two days more, Mr. Moses." --Moses: "Oh, doctor dear, maig idt dhree days so I can finish dot medicine. Idt vos so oxpensive."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Simon, Sr.: "Benny Goldberg's uncle left him all his money mit der sole request dot he vould put up a tablet on his grave after he vuz dead." --Simon, Jr.: "Did he do it?" --Simon, Sr.: "Shure! He put up a 'lithia' tablet!"
Caricature published in Judge. The text reads : --Mr. Hayrick (from Pine Corners): "But mister, this suit is too big fer me." --Mr. Cohen: "Listen, mine frendt. People vill t'ink you vun dot suit on a bet, und dot vill swell you up mit pride so much dot you vill fill out der suit fine."
Caricature published in Judge. The text reads : --Senior partner: "How much does Cohen owe us?" --Junior partner: "Five t'ousand tollars." --Senior partner: "Dot's great! He's shust failed for twendy cents on der tollar, unt I figured on only 'ten' vhen I solt him der goots."
Caricature of Joseph Pulitzer published in the March 9, 1899, edition of Life. The associated article reads : "The editor of the World is known wherever bad English is read, and depraved minds everywhere hail him as a source of inspiration. He has probably done more harm to morals, and has fostered with more real persistency the rapid undergrowth of American degeneracy than any other living man. What he might say of Life is therefore of great interest : 'Don' speag to me of Life. Dot paper is der worst ever, ain't it? Ven de Sun un Churnal un udder file sheets gome out against me, I laf ha-ha! Vat does it madder? But Life! Dot paper goes to der very peoples dot I vould buy myselluf a place among, because of my monish, un day vill not have me, Hah! It has cut into my cirgulation also, un made me a laughing stock. It makes me sick. Speag to me not of Life.' Mr. Pulitzer's views, though not new, may well bear reiterating, showing, as they do, that no refined family of taste can afford not to take Life regularly. Contrast the shame-faced individual with some grains of self-respect left who stealthily endeavors to conceal a copy of the World from sight, and the proud bearing of the man who spreads his Life where all may see the company he keeps. Merely to be seen with a copy of Life is a good mind advertisement."
Black-and-white lithographed caricature depicting Nicholas I of Russia applying the whip in order collect taxes to finance the Crimean War. The print shows the Tsar trying to extort funds from the Russian Jews by threatening them with pogroms. Lithograph by Destouches after a caricature by Honoré Daumier. Plate 91 of the series Actualités, published in the August 8, 1854, edition of Le Charivari.
Caricature of a Jewish man, accompanied by a poem : "You horrid 'sheeney,' though you strut / About, and wear the best of clothes; / Your dirty soul looks thro' your eyes, / You cannot hide your fearful nose. / With stony heart you grind the poor, / On 'cash' your thoughts are all intent; / You're never satisfied, unless / You get at least your 'cent per cent.'"
Caricature drawn by Roy Leighton Budd of a Jewish family eating a meal. The text written on the reverse reads : "Ikey! Ikey!! Mein Gott, boy, vould you ruin your olt fader? Vat I told you from chewing on dat side ver da gold filling is?"
Caricature of Jewish participation in the National Guard during the Revolutions of 1848. In German, the text reads : "Hascheln! Habts Acht! Mer sein jetzt gekümmen vor unsern Kümmandanten sein Haus. Regimentstrommler! Schlog ein Werbel, trrrrrrrr - soll ach Hoch leben." (On the banner) : "Profit. Gleiche Rechte mit den Christen!" In English, the text reads : "Attention! Pull yourselves together, troops! We are marching to our commander's house. Regiments, beat your drums!" (On the banner): "Profit. Equal rights with Christians!" Lithograph printed and published Vienna: F. Werner, Mariahilf.
Caricature of Jewish participation in the National Guard during the Revolutions of 1848. In German, the text reads : "Hascheln! Habts Acht! Mer sein jetzt gekümmen vor unsern Kümmandanten sein Haus. Regimentstrommler! Schlog ein Werbel, trrrrrrrr - soll ach Hoch leben." (On the banner) : "Profit. Gleiche Rechte mit den Christen!" In English, the text reads : "Attention! Pull yourselves together, troops! We are marching to our commander's house. Regiments, beat your drums!" (On the banner): "Profit. Equal rights with Christians!" Lithograph printed Leipzig: J. G. Fritzsche.
Black-and-white engraved caricature depicting little Israel having swallowed a ducat. In German, the text reads : "Das kleine Israelchen bemerkt, wie sein Tate Baruch eine so große Liebe für das Gold hat. Der Knabe denkt: 'Es muß doch seyn ebbes delicates um einen Ducaten!' Er kommt über des Etten Casse, sieht Ducaten, nimmt, leckt und -- verschluckt einen! - 'O wai geschrien!' - Es wird Lärm in Hause; der Kremnitzer muss wider ins Tageslicht. Israelchen wird auf den Tisch gesetzt. Tate Baruch attaquirt in Front mit Rhabarber, während Memme Rachel mit Lavements in den Rücken fällt. Pefselche, Schmul und Löbche - der seinen neuen Rock aus alten Beinkleidern an hat - harren ängstlich der Wiedergeburt ihres R 5,30,, mehr werthen Bruders; und siehe, das Goldsöhnchen lässt sie nicht länger warten! In English, the text reads : "Little Israel notices what a great love father Baruch has for money. The boy thinks: 'There must be something delicious about a ducat!' He comes to the case, sees the ducats, takes one, licks and - swallows one! 'Oy vey!' he yells. Noise takes over the house; the coin must be brought to daylight again. Little Israel is placed onto the table. Father Baruch attacks him from the front with rhubarb, while Mother Rachel gives him an enema in the back. Pefselche, Schmul, and Löbche - who is wearing a new skirt made out of old trousers - anxiously await the rebirth of their R 5,30,, worth from their brother; and look, the little gold son won't wait any longer!"
Engraving and text from Darstellungen menschlicher Narrheiten (Representations of human follies). In German, the text reads : "Was wolt Ihr Juden bey den Sachen, / soll man euch auch zu Narren machen. / Sie wollen einen Wipper krönen. / Der sich mit ihnen wird versöhnen. / Weil er so viel Profit genomen, / als feinen Juden zu gekomen." In English, the text reads : "What do you Jews want by those things, should you all be made into fools as well. / They want to crown a "Wipper," / Who will reconcile with them. / Because he took so much profit, that he became a well off Jew." This engraving is part of a series satirizing the foolish schemes people believed during the economic crisis in the early 17th century. The title "Der Kipp-und Wipper-Narr" refers to the phrase used to describe this period of hyperinflation (Kipper- und Wipperzeit), literally meaning to "Tipper and See-saw," which refers to the unstable state of the economy.
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.
Reproduction of a black-and-white woodcut and text from Das Ständebuch (The Book of Trades) with text by Hans Sachs and illustrations by Jost Amman. The book describes trades practiced in 16th-century Nuremberg. In German, the text reads : "Bin nicht vmb sonst ein Jüd genannt / Ich leih nur halb Gelt an ein Pfandt / Löst mans nit zu gesetztem Ziel / So gilt es mir dennoch so viel / Darmit verderb ich den loßn hauffn / Der nur wil Feyern / Fressn vnd Sauffn / Doch nimpt mein Handel gar nit ab / Weil ich meins gleich viel Brüder hab." In English, the text reads : "I'm called a Jew because, in dearth, / Pledge I pawn at half its worth; / If not redeemed on time, it will / Make my profits higher still. / I thus destroy all carless folk, / While they eat and drink and joke. / My business never suffers, for / I have many brothers more."
Black-and-white woodcut and text from Das Ständebuch (The Book of Trades) with text by Hans Sachs and illustrations by Jost Amman. The book describes trades practiced in 16th-century Nuremberg. In German, the text reads : "Bin nicht vmb sonst ein Jüd genannt / Ich leih nur halb Gelt an ein Pfandt / Löst mans nit zu gesetztem Ziel / So gilt es mir dennoch so viel / Darmit verderb ich den loßn hauffn / Der nur wil Feyern / Fressn vnd Sauffn / Doch nimpt mein Handel gar nit ab / Weil ich meins gleich viel Brüder hab." In English, the text reads : "I'm called a Jew because, in dearth, / Pledge I pawn at half its worth; / If not redeemed on time, it will / Make my profits higher still. / I thus destroy all carless folk, / While they eat and drink and joke. / My business never suffers, for / I have many brothers more."
Caricature of Moritz Mohl at a lectern during the 1848 Frankfurt Parliament, as other members of parliament approach him in anger. At the Frankfurt Parliament, Mohl argued against legal equality for Jews; he was constantly interrupted by other members of the assembly. Caricature by Alfons von Boddien. Lithograph printed Frankfurt am Main: Eduard Gustav May.
Hand-colored lithograph depicting a crowd outside of the Stock Exchange. The caption reads : "The warning sign is no better here than in the vineyard." The sign reads "Verbotener Weg" (entry forbidden).
Black-and-white lithograph depicting a Jewish peddler and Gabriel Riesser, member of the Frankfurt Parliament, mocking Heinrich von Gagern, who is walking past carrying bags of money on both shoulders. In German, the text reads : --1ster Jud: "Nu! Wie tragt der Mann sou schwär?" --2ter Jud: "S'nit sou arig worum er tragt jou uf bade Achsle! Bey mei lang Lebe ich hab ka Kinesinne druf!" In English, the text reads : --First Jew: "Nu! How is that man carrying something so heavy?" --Second Jew: "It's not that hard, that's why he's carrying them on both shoulders! In my whole life, I've never thought of that! Printed Frankfurt am Main: C. Knatz.
Hand-colored engraivng with two scenes: now and then. In German, the text reads : Von jetzt: --"Herr Minister ich wünsche eine Anstellung im Ministerium!" --"Ist mir unendlich leid, aber sie sind bereits alle vergeben."--" So überlassen Sie mir die Ihrige!" --"Ach wollen sie gefälligst bedenken, dass die selber erst eine von Gestern ist!" Und damahls: --"Eure Excelenz dürfte ich in aller Unterthänigkeit zu hoffen wagen?!" --"Mir leid--gute Conduit--wie gesagt--noch zu jung--Adieu!" --"Dürfte ich vielleicht bei der nächsten--Vorrükung?!" --"Adieu!" In English, the text reads : From now: --"Mr. Minister, I wish to have a position in the Ministry!" --"I am terribly sorry, but all of the position have already been awarded."--" So leave me your own!" --"Oh, do you really think, that even that one is one of the past!" And back then: --"Your excellency, may I, with great obedience, dare to hope?!" --"My apologies--good conduit--as I said---still too young--Goodbye!" --"May I, perhaps by the next--Displacement?!" --"Goodbye!" Engraving by Andreas Geiger.