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Illustrated antisemitic poster featuring the Statue of Liberty holding up a hammer and sickle. In her other arm, she holds a caricature of a Jewish man in fancy evening wear with antisemitic features smoking a cigar. The smoke billows up from the cigar and ends in a Star of David. The text reads, “Wake up Americans! Do you want this? Communism is Jewish. Clean up America! Break the Red Plague! Boycott the Jew!”
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Antisemitic poster in the United States

Antisemitic poster equating Jews with communism. The poster calls for the boycotting of Jewish interests. United States, 1939.

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