Visualizing Otherness I - Set 1
Visualizing Otherness: Nazi and other use of visual representation
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Below. Eight visual images from "Don't Trust a Fox/Trust Not the Jew," ("Trau keinem Jud") by Bauer (1936) an anti-Semitic Children's Book published by the German anti-Semitic newspaper, "DER STURMER." Note that images of the Jew have exaggerated physical features, especially distortions of face and body, while Germans/Aryans are cast as physical ideals. The book made a strong case for ostracism of the Jew from German society, such as image number 2, first column, which depicts a scene at a lake in Germany with the Jews looking at the sign that says "!Jews! You Are not Wanted Here." Column 2, image #2 juxtaposed the healthy Aryan physique versus the distorted Jewish body; image number #3 in this same column depicts an "ugly" Jew in his household feasting away and presumably exploiting a non-Jewish servant. Note the Jewish calendar on the wall over the Jew's head and the Star of David. The first image in column #3 suggests the Jewish body is a blight on the beautiful natural landscape, hence an aesthethic problem, while the next image shows Julius Streicher, editor of Der Strumer,in brown uniform greeting healthy German young people.
Other visual images in this section deal with alleged Jewish control of capital, lust for world domination, associations with communism, as well as stereotyping based on images of the body. Identification of the Jew is often linked with distortion of language as a key to otherness, a trait often found in new immigrants. Many of these are from democratic countries, suggesting the pervasiveness of this form of anti-Semitism, not engineered by the State, but nevertheless dangerous.
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Below. Images on the Other from Early 20th Century Postcards, various countries including the United States.
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Anti-Semitic Images from Scotland, circa 1908, Published by Bamforth.
Scottish Jewish humor. Judaica. Published by Bamforth. |
Scottish Jewish humor. Judaica. Published by Bamforth. |
Anti-Semitic Jewish Postcard 1908 |
Above. World War II Flyer linking Allies to being controlled by the Jews. The text reads: "Yankee--Englishman-Bolshevi k, (all) dance to the piping of the Jewish mess." 2.52" x 3.85". 1942. |
Above. A small label addressed to: "Countryman" and talks against the minorities, last statement reads: Poland for the Polish, early twenties, issued by independent nationalists in Poznan. |
Above. Anti-Semitic Jewish Postcard 1911. American anti-Semitic postcard printed in New York. Note the purposeful misspelling. 1910. |
Anti-Semitic poster symbolizing Nazi victory over Judaism." c.1942 |
Anti-Semitic Jewish Postcard 1904 |
Judaica Flyer Anti-Semitism Holocaust Jewish |
Austrian Anti-Semitic Postcard |
Austrian Anti-Semitic Postcard |
Racist, facial stereotype 1907 postcard, "Roman-Grecian is his nose" |
Rich,facial stereotype Pre-1920 postcard,artist-signed by Bishop. "Young Lady Named Simons exceedingly fond of Diamonds". Edge wear,postally-used 1908. |
Racist, facial stereotype Pre-1920 postcard,artist-signed by FLC Cavally. PAWNBROKER related = "vould do anybody for you". |
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- Visualizing Roma and Sinti (Gypsies)
- Visualizing Otherness II: The Serbian Anti-masonic Exhibition of 1941-42
- Visualizing Otherness III - Racist and Discriminatory Views of Afro-Americans in Popular Culture
- Visualizing Otherness IV - Native Americans