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Inscribed postcard of three pigs as the three Jews sitting on a bench stereotype

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    Inscribed postcard of three pigs as the three Jews sitting on a bench stereotype

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Postcard with a handwritten message, mailed in Vienna in 1902, with a printed image of three clothed pigs seated on a bench. They have stereotypical Jewish features, including curled payot and protruding noses. In Jewish religious texts, pigs symbolize filth and abomination, and Judaism forbids the consumption of pork. The portrayal of the Jewish men as pigs was a deriding twist on the classic caricature of three Jews on a bench. This caricature in turn made a mockery of Jewish spa culture in the summers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The postcard is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
    Date
    postmark:  1902 March 13
    publication:  1897 January-1902 March 13
    Geography
    postmark: Vienna (Austria)
    publication: Dresden (Germany)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, top right corner, printed, black ink : Gruss aus [Greetings from]
    front, left margin, printed vertically, black ink : EDGAR SCHMIDT, DRESDEN-BUDAPEST. 6.141.
    front, right margin, printed vertically, black ink : E.B. & C. i. B. 9090. [Eduard Buettner & Co. in Berlin 9090]
    front, bottom left corner, printed, black ink : Sieh die Karte freundlich an! / Knüpft sich doch der Wunsch daran, / Dass ein jedes dieser Drei / Dir ein rechtes Glücksschwein sei. [Look at the card in a friendly way! Each one of these three are linked to your desires, You have the right lucky pig.]
    back, center, printed, black ink : Postkarte / An / in / Wohnung / (Strasse und Hausnummer) [Postcard / To / in / Apartment / (Street and House Number)]
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Publisher: Edgar Schmidt, Dresden-Budapest
    Publisher: Kaiserliche Konigliche Osterreichische Post
    Publisher: Eduard Buettner & Co.
    Biography
    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.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Classification
    Information Forms
    Category
    Postcards
    Genre/Form
    Postcards.
    Physical Description
    Postcard with a color illustration of three clothed pigs seated upright, side-by-side on a slatted wooden bench. They have curled payot, hooded eyes, protruding snouts, and cloven hoof hands. They wear overcoats, colorful vests, boots, distinctive hats, and are holding umbrellas. They are engaged in animated conversation, with the left and right pigs facing each other in profile and the center pig facing forward and leering. There is German text and handwriting on the front and back. On the back are two postmarks. Adhered to the upper right corner is a blue 5-heller postage stamp with a centered, side-profile bust image of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, adhesive
    Inscription
    front, right, stamped, black ink : (…hard) Bodnar / Wien [(…hard) Bodnar / Vienna]
    front, along edges, handwritten, black ink : [illegible German writing]
    back, top center, handwritten, black ink : 393
    back, center, handwritten, black ink : (Wolyeboren Hemn?) / Alfred Fey – Felber / in / Wien / IX. Harmoniegasse 8.
    back, left, stamped, black ink : WIEN 9/1 / 66 / BESTELLT / 13. 3. 02 / 1 – 2 ½ N
    back, upper right, stamped, black ink : 13. 3. / 18/1 WIEN 1 / 10 11

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The postcard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Special Collection
    Katz Ehrenthal Collection
    Record last modified:
    2023-06-12 15:31:58
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