French Antisemitic Cartoon: The Cancer Gnawing at France

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Object ID

2014.1.16

Object Name

Cartoon

Date

1940

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Description

A series of anti-semitic illustrations printed by the Institut D'Etudes Des Questions Juives [Institute of the Study of Jewish Questions].

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

The following French propaganda “cartoon,” from the Institute of the Study of Jewish Questions in Paris, has the look of the Der Sturmer tabloid grotesques, with the same splenetic appeal to the French to not fall victim to Jewish cunning.

Translation: The Cancer Gnawing at France. For 700 years the Jew has come from his native ghetto to invade France. Soon after his arrival he is enriched in his affairs at our cost (‘honestly won’ he says). With the money he has stolen he launches himself into politics and divides the French. Becoming powerful, he manipulates the levers of control and pushes the country into war. He takes the money to America. With France defeated he organizes the black market. And it is he in the shadows who sabotages politics of the Marechal (Petain). The new laws which place the Jew outside of the national community, will finally allow France to live peacefully in national reconciliation. Join for a final solution to the Jewish questions.

Dimensions

4 3/8 x 3 5/8" [single face], 4 3/8 x 22" [six images on one side]

Keywords

Institut D'Etudes Des Questions Juives, France, Political

Subcollection

Propaganda

Recommended Citation

"French Antisemitic Cartoon: The Cancer Gnawing at France" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.16.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/3