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Hatemail - Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards (Paperback): Salo Aizenberg

Hatemail - Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards (Paperback)

Salo Aizenberg; Foreword by Michael Berenbaum

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Today e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter are sometimes used to spread hateful messages and slurs masking as humor. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries postcards served this purpose. The images collected in this volume make it painfully clear that anti-Semitic propaganda did not simply begin with the Nazis. Nor was it the sole province of politicians, journalists, and rabble-rousers. One of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism during this time was spread by quite ordinary people through postcards. Of the millions of postcards exchanged during their heyday of 1890 through 1920, a considerable percentage carried the anti-Semitic images that publishers churned out to meet public demand, reflecting deep-seated attitudes of society.

Over 250 examples of such postcards, largely from the pre-Holocaust era, are reproduced here for the first time--selected, translated, and historically contextualized by one of the world's foremost postcard collectors. Although representing but a small sample of the many thousands that were in print, these examples nonetheless offer a disturbing glimpse--one shocking to the modern sensibility--into the many permutations of anti-Semitism eagerly circulated by millions of people. In so doing, they help us to better understand a phenomenon still pervasive today.

General

Imprint: Jewish Publication Society
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2013
First published: November 2013
Authors: Salo Aizenberg
Foreword by: Michael Berenbaum
Dimensions: 216 x 254 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-8276-0949-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN: 0-8276-0949-3
Barcode: 9780827609495

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