“Hints for the Jews. - Several Ways of Getting to Manhattan Beach.” From Puck Magazine, Vol. V, no. 125.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

New York, July 30, 1879

Gatefold spread, double panel illustration by Joseph Keppler.

Puck was America’s first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918. The scene depicted here is a satirical attack on the attempted ban of Jews from vacationing in the newly developing summer colony of Manhattan Beach that was located in Coney Island, New York. Manhattan Beach owners Austin Corbin and Judge Henry Hilton were indeed the founders of the anti-Semitic organization, The American Society for the Suppression of the Jews. A series of wildly humorous suggestions are illustrated: “Kinky hair must positively be straightened out.” * “Parabolic noses must be trimmed down to Christian style.” See also next lot.