Box 11

Scope and Contents

Postcards with photographic images and illustrations related to antisemitic accusations and persecutions, such as blood libel, host desecration, exile, pogroms, and sites of concentration camps. Also included are images of memorials for Jews killed in pogroms and the Holocaust.

Scope and Contents Postcards include photographs, illustrations, and artwork reproductions featuring images related to the Holocaust, historical trials of Jewish individuals, such as Alfred Dreyfus, Zionist Congress meetings, Jewish soldiers during World War I, Jewish institutions, such as the Jewish Hospitality House in Boston, Massachusetts, and Jewish characters in literature and theater. Of note is a series of postcards issued by the Jewish Welfare Board featuring World War I steamships, and a significant...

Scope and Contents

Postcards with photographs and illustrations of prominent Jewish authors and a small number of Jewish scientists and socialists. Examples include Moses Leib Lilienblum, Perez Smolenskin, Jacob Dineson, Isaac Meir Weissenberg, Mordecai Spector, Abraham Reisen, David Frishman, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and Semen Grigorevich Frug. The majority of individuals from this portfolio are from from Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.