Material Culture in Wilhelmine Germany: Beer Stein Shows Jews Emigrating to Palestine
Abstract
Material culture reflects the cultural order that a society has or aspires to. This beer stein was richly decorated with scenes from an anti-Jewish narrative about the “emigration of the Jews to Palestine.” It made antisemitic imagery self-evident and part of normal everyday life.
Source
Source: Beer stein with cover [Deckelhumpen] with antisemitic imagery from the Finkelstein Collection. Photograph: Arno Gisinger und Iman Heystek. Courtesy of the Jewish Museum Hohenems and Klartext Verlag, Essen.
© Jewish Museum Hohenems and Klartext Verlag, Essen. Reproduced with permission.
Further Reading
Michaela Haibl, “‘Antisemitische Bilder’ – antijüdische Visiotype,” in Werner Bergmann and Ulrich Sieg, eds., Antisemitische Geschichtsbilder. Essen: Klartext, 2009, pp. 231–54.