Let Jewish Tanks Help Beat Hitler
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- Title (English):
- Let Jewish Tanks Help Beat Hitler
- Title (Yiddish Romanized):
- Zoln Yidishe tanken helfn dershlogn Hitlern
- Title (Yiddish):
- זאָלן אידישע טאַנקען העלפן דערשלאָגן היטלערן
- Collection:
- International Workers’ Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Culture Front
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
World War II Jewish Tanks and Poems
Visual - Creator:
- Gropper, William, 1897-1977
- Creator:
- גראפער, װיליאם
- Organization:
- Jewish-American Section, I.W.O.
- Date:
- 1942-08
- Coordinates:
- 40.73591,-73.99406
- Latitude:
- 40.73591
- Longitude:
- -73.99406
- Location:
- New York, New York, United States
- ID Number:
- 5276b45af09_08
- File Name:
- 5276b45af09_08.pdf
- Address (creator):
- 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
- Transcription:
- L-96 [red pencil] OK [blue typesetters pencil]
- Work Type:
- publications
fund raising
tanks (military vehicles)
world wars
political ideologies and attitudes
historical figures
political campaigns
political cartoons
drawings (visual works)
printers' proofs - Subject:
- World War II- War Effort
Fundraising
Red Army
World War II Homefront
Culture Front- Publishing, IWO- Journals and Publications
Jewish Left
Wartime Jewish Unity
Nazism and Fascism
Soviet Union
Intelligentsia
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the USSR (JAFC) - Description:
- Ad for the Jewish Section of the I.W.O'.s campaign for 100,000 dollars for the Red Army. With penciled not "OK" in the right margin. Blank space, rather than an article on the right, makes it likely this was print-ready copy for review, not a clipping of the ad as it actually ran in the paper. The drawing is part of the IWO/JPFO's war effort campaign to buy Jewishly named tanks for the Soviet Union to support the appeal made by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the USSR (JAFC). Graphic is used on a flyer from an August 6, 1942 fundraising meeting. Haim Solomon's name on a tank is spelled in English, with Bar Kokhba spelled using Hebrew characters.
- Notes:
- Drawing attributed to William Gropper based on other drawings
The Jewish People’s Fraternal Order was the largest ‘national’ section of the International Workers Order (IWO) which focused on cultural awareness and celebration, mutual support especially in health insurance coverage, and anti-fascist activities. The IWO also gave particular emphasis to supporting the rights and interests of African Americans. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. - Cite As:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Relationships:
- 21072649
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records, 1915-2002 (KCL05276)
- Box:
- 45a
- Folder:
- 9
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the International Workers Order (IWO) Records Collection (Kheel Center #5276) are unknown. This material was digitized from physical holdings by Cornell University Library in 2016, with funding from an Arts and Sciences Grant to Jonathan Boyarin. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. Cornell is providing access to the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell would like to learn more about items in the collection and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders. Please contact the Kheel Center at kheel_center@cornell.edu