URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/36308
Collection Structure Poster collection >  You saved them in 1917. Will you let them starve now? ... American Jewry! The wolves of hunger are still attacking. Will we protect our own from starvation? A relief cablegram from Poland says: "Deaths from tuberculosis are chiefly in children and the result of three years of starvation. One physician reports whole schools in which there is not a single child free of tuberculosis." Shall we save them? What will you do? ...
Item Title You saved them in 1917. Will you let them starve now? ... American Jewry! The wolves of hunger are still attacking. Will we protect our own from starvation? A relief cablegram from Poland says: "Deaths from tuberculosis are chiefly in children and the result of three years of starvation. One physician reports whole schools in which there is not a single child free of tuberculosis." Shall we save them? What will you do? ...
Collection Title Poster collection
Artist Cozzy
Issuing Body American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War. New York Campaign
Date Created 1918?
Description Drawing of an allegorical figure, labelled "American Jewry" defending a group of people from a pack of wolves. Verso: Mailing envelope with words: "The wolves of hunger." Double-sided.
Subject(s) World War, 1914-1918 Jews Charities Food question Civilian relief Tuberculosis in children Jewish question Antisemitism International relief Jewish children United States
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Published New York, United States
Country of Origin United States
Dimensions Overall: 19 x 12 in. (48.3 x 30.5 cm)
Format Poster
Medium political posters
Color color
Color color
Hoover ID Poster US 3408
Record Number XX343.26684
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
Rights No known restrictions.