German Antisemitic Postcard

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.20

Object Name

Postcard

Date

10-18-1896

Files

Content Warning

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Description

Front: Black and white rendering of the busts of four Jewish men with pencil writing on the right third of the card. 'Ein Vierblatteriges Kleeblatt' [A four leaf clover] Back: Message handwritten in pencil with green postal stamp and several black hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

19th century postally used postcard from Berlin to Zittau, Germany with caricatured drawings of four Jewish men called “a four leaf clover.”

Dimensions

3 9/16 x 5 5/8"

Keywords

Jewish

Subcollection

Philatelic, Propaganda

Recommended Citation

"German Antisemitic Postcard" (1896). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.20.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/343