Their New Jerusalem
- Title:
- Their New Jerusalem
- Alternate Title:
- Their New Jerusalem
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Hamilton, Grant E.
- Other Creators:
- Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co.
- Date:
- 1892
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1111.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1111_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1870 - 1899
- Subject:
- New York City
Satirical
Pictorial
Bias - Measurement:
- 33 x 51 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- As a "nation of immigrants," Americans have produced persuasive maps addressing the issues of immigration and nationality over most of the country's lifetime. The collection includes a number of these maps published since the 1840s. Some are welcoming, encouraging, and provide advice to immigrants. Some assert that the diversity of our nationalities is a source of strength for the country. And yet others attack immigrants in general, or specific ethnic or religious immigrant groups, particularly Asians, Catholics, and Jews. For the range of these maps, Search > "immigration.”
This anti-semitic cartoon appeared in Judge Magazine in 1892. At the right, Russian Jewish immigrants flee the whip of persecution to New York as the waters of the Atlantic part to accommodate them. In the center is a stereotypical Jewish businessman, well dressed and carrying a scroll labeled "Perseverance and Industry." Behind him is "Broadway in 1892," with Jewish names on every building from clothiers and fancy goods to bankers and brokers. At the left, elegantly dressed emigrants heads west toward the setting sun in an endless stream - Schuyler, Stuyvesant, Van Rensselaer, Van Beekman - over the caption "Our First Families Driven Out." Beneath the cartoon is text indicating the Jewish population of New York, number of wholesale firms on Broadway, capital, and real estate holdings. As if more conclusion were necessary, "Instead of returning to the holy land to build up Jerusalem and to restore the glories of their race, the chosen people are coming to the metropolis of the new world."
Czar Alexander Ii of Russia was assassinated on March 13, 1881. "Seeking a scapegoat, the government and people [had] turned upon the Jews in pogroms in over a hundred towns and villages, wild excesses of violence, pillage, and plunder." https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/escape-from-the-pogroms-judaic-treasures, accessed February 17, 2021. The pogroms led in turn to the expulsion of Jews from the cities and villages of Russia and their exclusion from schools and universities, the legal profession and the government. Ibid. The result was a massive wave of emigration of Russian Jews, many of them to America, doubling the Jewish population of the United States in the 1880s alone. Ibid.
It is interesting to compare this cartoon to the similar but apparently welcoming one appearing eleven years earlier in Puck Magazine, ID #2234, "The Modern Moses."
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- Judge Magazine, January 23, 1892.
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.