The Implacable Urge to Defame - Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935 (Paperback)

From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly fit for American citizenship, but Jews were especially singled out with visual and verbal abuse. In The Implacable Urge to Defame, Baigell examines more than sixty published cartoons from humor magazines such as Judge, Puck and Life and considers the climate of opinion that allowed such cartoons to be published. In doing so, he traces their impact on the emergence of anti-Semitism in the American Scene movement in the 1920s and 1930s.

General

Imprint:	Syracuse University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Release date:	March 2017
Authors:	Matthew Baigell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-8156-3510-9
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Cartoons & comic strips Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General
LSN:	0-8156-3510-9
Barcode:	9780815635109

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