Het Nieuwe Jooden-Spel [The New Jew Game].

(ANTISEMITICA).

Amsterdam 1837.

Broadsheet 53.5 x 45 cm.

Though anti-Semitism was never as virulent in Holland as in neigboring Germany, this Dutch board game is an example of an unpleasant sense of humor. Purporting to be a polite table game involving the throwing of dice, the object is to mock the Jew depicted in the center with roaming nose and unkempt beard. Mozes Heiman Gans' Memorbook, a pictorial history of the Jews in Holland, abounds with such antisemitic caricatures. This game however, is not in Gans' book