Brief Description: This collection comprises postcards published in Europe and America by the end of the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century. The collection contains 78 postal cards. They feature a theme correlated with "ugliness" of Jews by showing an exaggeratedly nasty facial and posture features. Thematic representation shows a mundane encounter of non-Jews with Jews and the Jews conducting business, the Jews at leisure, the Jews in groups, all in all in a grotesque and offensive for the Jews manner. The authors of these postal cards overall emphasize the Jewish otherness by showing them as indecent, ugly and self-centered people. De-facto it is a marginalization of the Jews by presenting them as uncultured, tasteless, lacking good manners and uncivilized people. The elements of grotesque and satire arguably by the thoughts of the authors perhaps should make the picture funny, however it is highly arguably.  Admittedly these series of the pictures constitute a pure anti-Jewish and antisemitic presentation of the Jews disseminating a message of them  the people who do not belong to the mainstream society in Europe and America.

Record Series Number: RG-72.13/RG-72.13

Created by: Victor, Ed (1960s -- 1990s)

Volume: 0.0

Biographical Note for Victor, Ed (1960s -- 1990s) : Mr. Victor started his collection guided primarily by philatelic interest. He collected letters, envelopes, postcards and other documents bearing a postal stamp or institutional stamps of the respective authorities and agencies. At a certain point, he realizes that the fate of the people, reflected in the short narratives, is of eternal historic value and shall not be measured only in a philatelic dimension. The content of various wartime correspondences reveals a historic enormity of victimization, dehumanization and personal tragedies on one side and a cold blood calmness of perpetrators on the other.