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Calls for Donations for the Jewish Winter Relief for the Area of the Hanse City of Hamburg from the Gemeindeblatt [Congregation Newsletter], drawn by Hans Rudolf Growald, Hamburg, 1937/38
https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-77.en.v1
Jüdisches Winterhilfswerk
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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These five drawings published in different issues of the Gemeindeblatt
[Congregation Newsletter] and the Jüdisches Gemeindeblatt für das
Gebiet der Hansestadt Hamburg [Jewish Congregation Newsletter for the
Area of the Hanse City of Hamburg] solicited donations for the Jewish
Winter Relief in the winter of 1937/38. The signature appearing at the
edge reads “Growald,” which indicates that the drawings were the
work of Berlin commercial artist Hans Rudolf Growald.
The five titles spelled in capital letters are as follows: “Jeder
Kopf denkt an den Eintopf” [“Every head remembers the Soup Kitchen
Collection”]—the image shows five laughing heads hovering over a
laughing stew pot; “Ein einfaches Exempel: Sonntagsbraten minus
Eintopfgericht gleich Winterhilfsspende” [“A simple example:
Sunday roast minus stew equals a donation to the Winter
Relief”]—this math problem shows a pot as teacher holding a
pointer while standing in front of a blackboard; “Helft leere Öfen
und Töpfe füllen” [“Help fill empty stoves and pots”]—which
shows an empty stove and an empty stew pot crying bitterly; and in the
image titled “Eintopfsammlung” [“Soup Kitchen Collection”] a
laughing figure 1 stirs a steaming pot of stew, which is a kind of
rebus puzzle for the German term “Eintopf.” By contrast, the image
showing the lettering “Jewish Winter Relief 1937 / 38” Jüdische
Winterhilfe 1937 / 38 has a more serious character and, appealing to
the viewer’s Jewish identity, shows a lit menorah in the background
while the Jewish Winter Relief logo, the letters J and W combined
below a star of David, can be seen in the foreground.
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