Gift of Yehuda Nir in memory of his father, Samuel Grunfeld
Id no. 193.90, Currency, German
Currency depicts three men and one woman dancing around a pedestal with a sack of money on top, representing a Jewish banker, a Jewish businessman, a Bolshevik, and a half naked woman. The text translates: Nothing is sacred any more; all vices rule inrestrained.
Cities, towns and enterprises printed emergency currency during the inflation of the 1920s. When Jews were blamed for economic problems, Notgeld incorporated anti-Semitic themes, images, and text.