Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Babylon; Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart
Angaben zur Quelle:
20 (2002) 113-128
Keywords:
Fuchs, Eduard,
;
Antisemitism in art
;
Jewish wit and humor History and criticism
Abstract:
Fuchs (1870-1940), owner of perhaps the largest collection of caricatures in the world, published a series of volumes of caricatures and accompanying text dealing with various social themes, among them "Juden in der Karikatur" (1921). Fuchs' view was close to that of Sombart, who emphasized the Jews' restlessness, their subversiveness, and their gift for abstraction, which draws them irresistibly to capitalism. Fuchs, who had a Jewish wife, did not see Jewish capitalism and innovative business methods in purely negative terms, but as the fulfillment of an essential social function; on the other hand, he identified the Jew with the "Schacherjude" (a derogatory term for the Jewish pedlar), and justified the resentment of the common people and their "quite extraordinary fear" of him. Most of the caricatures deal with Jews and money. Suggests that "Jews in caricature" becomes "Jews as caricature".
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