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Poster of The Wandering Jew parlor game

Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.553

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Poster of a board game based upon the Le errant Juif [The Wandering Jew], an 1844 novel by Eugene Sue. This game is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
    Artwork Title
    De Wandelende Jood
    Alternate Title
    The Wandering Jew
    Date
    manufacture:  approximately 1852-approximately 1858
    Geography
    manufacture: Metz (France)
    distribution: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, center top, black ink : DE WANDELENDE JOOD. [The Wandering Jew]
    front, center bottom, black ink : Bij DE ERVE WIJSMULLER, PAPIER-MAGAZIJN. / Amsterdam. [By Erve Wijsmueller Paper Warehouse]
    front, bottom left, black ink : Fabrique d’Estampes de Gangel, Metz. [Gangel Prints Factory]
    front, bottom center, black ink : Depose. [Registered]
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Manufacturer: Fabrique d'Estampes de Gangel
    Erve Wijsmuller
    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
    Dutch French
    Classification
    Posters
    Physical Description
    Photomechanical color print of an offwhite gameboard with a coiled oval track of 62 numbered boxes leading to 63, The Wandering Jew in Paris. He is depicted as an old, barefoot Jewish man with a long, white beard and hair in loose traveling clothes, holding a walking stick. Each box has an Arabic numeral above a colorful, French captioned image of a character, place, or animal from Eugene Sue’s 1844 novel, Le Juif Errant [The Wandering Jew.] Characters include Dagobert, Rose, Blanche, Gabriel, Prince Djalma, and Adrienne and the Jew is shown in different locales. In the center are the title and a block of Dutch text explaining the game. The corners of the poster outside the gameboard have vignettes of the author and of several characters. The poster is adhered to slightly larger linen backing.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, linen, adhesive

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    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The game 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:
    2024-11-07 11:30:54
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