Hatemail Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards

Name: Hatemail Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards
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ISBN: 9780827609495

ISBN-10: 0827609493

ISBN-13: 9780827609495

Edition: 2013

Authors: Salo Aizenberg, Michael Berenbaum

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Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Publication date: 11/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 8.57" wide x 10.08" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English