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Antisemitic handbill about a Belgian celebration of the burning of Jews

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    Antisemitic handbill about a Belgian celebration of the burning of Jews

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Antisemitic engraving, Histoire du sacré jubilé [History of the saced anniversary] about an annual Belgian Catholic celebration of the burning of Jews. These four scenes are illustrated: Jonathan giving money to Jean de Louvaine; Jean breaking into the Chapel of St. Catherine; Jews stabbing the communion hosts; and Jews being condemned by the Tribunal of Brussels. This pamphlet is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
    Title
    Histoire du sacré jubilé
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1670
    Geography
    publication: Brussels (Belgium)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    Translation of the French text : [A Jew from the city of Enghien proposed to a Bruxelles Jew to steal a few of the consecrated ‘Hosts’ to amuse themselves by profaning them. (‘Hosts’ are consecrated wafers or breads distributed in the Church) The offer of 60 pieces of gold was accepted and in October 1369 the Jew Jean de Louvaine broke into St. Catherine’s church in Bruxelles and stole 16 ‘Hosts’ which were recently consecrated. He then gave the ‘Hosts’ to Jonathan in Bruxelles, who paid him the 60 pieces of gold, and who celebrated the following Friday by stabbing the Hosts. He was later found in his garden, stabbed to death by unknown persons. The remaining Hosts were delivered by Jonathan’s wife to the Bruxelles Synagogue, and on the Holly Friday, the Jews assembled there proceeded to stab the Hosts with knives, swords, stilettos and vomited curses in abundance upon them. When the Hosts erupted in blood, the Jews became very frightened and rushed home as if nothing happened. Being afraid that their crime would be discovered, they took the remnants of the Hosts and placed them in their container (Ciborium), then hired the services of a renegade woman to take the ‘Hosts’ to the Jews of Cologne. The woman however, became remorseful and instead went to confess the whole affair to the priest Van de Eede, who in turn consulted another two priests and all of them went to the local magistrate, who a Belgian celebration of took the case to the Duke of Brabant, and soon enough the Court and the justices were convinced of the truth of the case. They arrested all the Jews; put them through light torture, and after doubling the torture they all confessed. They were condemned to be tied by their hands and feet, and paraded through the streets of Bruxelles. At every turn they were stabbed with hot irons, then placed on stakes to be burned alive. The execution took place on the eve of ‘Ascension of our Lord’ for his great glory in the year 1370. The remaining Jews were banished from Brabant and had their possessions confiscated.]
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    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
    French
    Classification
    Posters
    Object Type
    Handbills (tgm)
    Physical Description
    Engraved sheet with four illustrated scenes: Jonathan giving money to Jean de Louvaine; Jean breaking into the Chapel of St. Catherine; Jews stabbing the communion hosts; and Jews being condemned by the Tribunal of Brussles.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) | Width: 18.750 inches (47.625 cm)
    Materials
    overall : wove paper, ink

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    Conditions on Use
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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The pamphlet 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 18:30:34
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