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Print of Jews forced to listen to a Christian sermon

Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.287

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    Print of Jews forced to listen to a Christian sermon

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Lithograph by Konstantin Guise (1810-1858) after a drawing by Hieronymus Hess (1799-1850), ca. 1823. It depicts a monk giving a sermon to an assembly of Jews who were forced to listen to a Christian sermon every Saturday. These mandatory gatherings were held at the church of Sant'Angelo in Pescharia in Rome from the 17th to the 19th century. The engraving is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
    Artwork Title
    Die Bekehrung der Juden in Rom
    Alternate Title
    The Conversion of the Jews in Rome
    Date
    publication/distribution:  after 1830
    Geography
    publication: Karlsruhe (Germany)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, bottom left, black ink : Hiers Hess inv in Roma 1823.
    front, bottom right, black ink : Lith von Guise unter Direction von H Hess.
    front, bottom center, black ink : DIE BEKEHRUNG DER JUDEN IN ROM / Das Original besitzt Herr T. Heimlicher Baumeister in Basel. / Carlsruhe bei J. Velten [The conversion of the Jews in Rome / The original is owned by Mr. T. Heimlich Baumeister in Basel. / Carlsruhe with J. Velten]
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Artist: Hieronymus Hess
    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
    Art
    Category
    Prints
    Object Type
    Lithographs (aat)
    Physical Description
    Print of a lithograph in black ink on paper of a large, colonnaded room crowded with people. In the left center, a scowling man in a monk’s robe stands on a raised platform addressing the crowd. His right thumb points at a crucifix on the wall behind, and his left hand, palm down, is extended toward the rows of mostly Jewish men seated on benches in front of him. Most have beards and large noses and wear hats and overcoats; several look around disinterestedly, a few sleep. In the center, a man in the second row covers his mouth with his hand and cowers before monk who steps toward him with his hand raised as if to strike him. Behind him, in the right foreground, are 2 monks in skull caps and robes with their hands on a kneeling man in a turban and dark robe. In the left foreground, a man in a hooded robe with a cross speaks to a uniformed soldier with a rifle near a man with a quill pen seated at a desk speaking to a man in a friar’s robe. A crowd of men, women, and children sit and stand in the room behind the benches. There are nave arcades beyond the 3 sides with columned arches and a second story arcade with a rose window from which 2 men look down. German captions are printed in a panel at the bottom.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 18.250 inches (46.355 cm) | Width: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The print 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:
    2022-07-28 18:30:22
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