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Antisemitic book created as promotional material for Der Ewige Jew exhibition

Publication | Accession Number: 1989.307.1

Title: Der Ewige Jude
Alternate Title: The Eternal Jew
Date: 1937 (publication/distribution)
Geography: publication : Munich (Germany)
Language: German
Classification: Books and Published Materials
Category: Books and pamphlets
Object Type: Nazi propaganda--Books (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Werner Katzenstein

Physical Description: Soft cover ; 128 p. , ill. , ports. ; 26 cm.
The front cover has a caricature of a Jew in a black robe with a long beard and one outstretched hand holding gold coins, and a whip in the other. There is a small inset map of the Soviet Union with red sickle and hammer.
A postcard, cancelled December 18, 1937, has the exhibition information: GROSSE POLITISCHE SCHAU IM BIBLIOTHEKSBAU DES DEUTSCHEN MUSEUMS ZU MÜNCHEN . AB 8. NOVEMBER 1937.TÄGLICH GEÖFFNET VON 10.21 UHR [Great political exhibition in the German Museum Library in Munich. From November 8, 1937, open daily]
Contributor: Author: Hans Diebow
Distributor: Franz Eher Nachfolger
Topical Term: Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.
Jews--Pictorial works.
Jews--Germany--Caricatures and cartoons--History.
Nazi propaganda--Germany--History--20th century.
Wandering Jew in art--Exhibitions.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Werner Katzenstein.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-03-30 12:07:10
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