Jewry über Alles
- Title:
- Jewry über Alles
- Alternate Title:
- Jewry über Alles
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Goy [pseudonym]
- Other Creators:
- Beamish, Henry Hamilton
- Date:
- 1920
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2111.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2111_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Bias
Politics & Government
Satirical
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 4.5 x 10.5 on page 25 x 19 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This figure of a stereotypical Jew as an octopus controlling the world was the cover illustration of a virulently anti-semitic British periodical, Jewry über Alles, in March 1920. The multiple tentacles cover the full range of agriculture, manufacturing and production (cotton, chemicals, tobacco, oil, meat, etc.), public utilities, transportation, finance, mining, entertainment, the press, and even the white slave trade. It was produced by "the most extreme group disseminating antisemitic propaganda in the early 1920s - indeed the very first organisation set up in Britain for this express purpose," a "patriotic society" called "The Britons" established by Henry H. Beamish. Kadish 1992, 38.
Beamish was from a family with a proud military history, had served in Boer War, and thereafter was defeated twice in parliamentary elections. His group asserted that Jews could never be loyal citizens of Briton because they "bore allegiance only to the World Jewish Conspiracy," and that they "posed a distinct threat to the national unity and racial integrity . . . and undermined the Empire." In addition to a host of interim measures, the Britons proposed the complete segregation of the Jews, withdrawal of citizenship rights, and their eventual deportation, at least initially to Palestine. Ibid. 41.
The octopus is a persistent trope in persuasive cartography. It first appeared in Frederick Rose's "Serio-Comic War Map For The Year 1877," ID #2272, about the Russo-Turkish War. "Once Fred W. Rose had created the 'Octopus' map of Europe, it proved difficult to rid propaganda maps of them." Barber 2010, 164. "The prevalence of the octopus motif in later maps suggests that the octopus also spoke to humanity's primeval fears, evoking a terrifying and mysterious creature from the depths (the dark outer places of the world) that convincingly conjured a sense of limitless evil." Baynton-Williams 2015, 180.
The collection includes numerous maps - from Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Latin America, the Netherlands and the U.S. - employing the octopus motif. (Search > “octopus”.) Many of these relate to imperialism and war, from 1877 to the Cold War. Others attack social and political targets, including a "reactionary" journalist, the Standard Oil monopoly, “Landlordism,” mail order houses, Jews and Mormons.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Jewry über Alles, March 1920. London: Judaic Publishing Co.
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.