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19th century US cartoon contrasting a rich Jewish shop owner and a peddler

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    19th century US cartoon contrasting a rich Jewish shop owner and a peddler

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Cartoon of a stereotypical heayset, flashily dressed Jewish shopowner suspiciously watching an unkempt Jewish peddler dressed in rags walking down the street. The captions, set as poems, make fun of both, and point out how the rich Wholesaler does not recognize his old friend the Peddler. It was drawn by F.W. Opper for Puck, America's first humor magazine, published in New York in both English and German language versions. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
    Artwork Title
    Borscht wider Borscht
    Date
    creation:  1892
    Geography
    publication: Puck (German edition); New York (N.Y.)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, top, black ink : Borscht wider Borscht! [Borscht against Borscht]
    front, bottom, 1st stanza, Fraktur, black ink : Ⅰ. / Wer is der Peddler? Well, by Jove! / Ist’s nicht der Feisch von Posen! / Er war ein Kohzen und ich ging / Herum mit alte Hosen. / Heut bin ich Flowerhill & Co., / Der Wholesale Clothing-Man -- / Was Wunder, daß ich nach zehn Jahr / Ihm nicht erkennen kenn! [Who is the Peddler? Well, by Jove! Is it not Feisch of Posen! He was a…, and I went around with old pants. Today I’m Flowerhill & Co., the Wholesale Clothing Man. What a wonder, that after 10 years I cannot recognize him!]
    front, bottom, 2nd stanza, Fraktur, black ink : Ⅱ. / Do geiht der Ganef Blumenberg, / Was pleite is geloffen, / As er genümmen hot of Borg / Viel Röck un Hoisenstoffen. / Heint is er stloz, wenn er aach hot / Bei mir gegeffen Täg’ -- / Ich denk m’r : Schneid D’r ä Krie! weil ich / Ihm nischt derkennen mäg! [You go to the Ganef Blumenberg, What is bankrupt…He is proud, when he…for me eaten today - I think to myself: Pluck up some courage! Because I do not recognize him!]
    front, within image, top, on door, black ink : Boher & Co.
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Artist: Frederick Burr Opper
    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
    Physical Description
    Illustration with poem captions depicting an Old Clothes Dealer, the rich Wholesaler does not recognize his old friend the Peddler
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink
    Inscription
    front, bottom right corner, pencil : puck / 1882

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    No restrictions on access
    Conditions 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 18:30:34
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