Their New Jerusalem (1892)

Historical roots of the "Great Replacement Theory"

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An anti-semitic cartoon from Judge Magazine. At the right, Russian Jewish immigrants flee the whip of persecution to New York as the waters of the Atlantic part to accommodate them.

In the center is a stereotypical Jewish businessman, well dressed and carrying a scroll labeled "Perseverance and Industry." Behind him is "Broadway in 1892," with Jewish names on every building from clothiers and fancy goods to bankers and brokers.

At the left, elegantly dressed emigrants heads west toward the setting sun in an endless stream - Schuyler, Stuyvesant, Van Rensselaer, Van Beekman - over the caption "Our First Families Driven Out."

Beneath the cartoon is text indicating the Jewish population of New York, number of wholesale firms on Broadway, capital, and real estate holdings. As if more conclusion were necessary, "Instead of returning to the holy land to build up Jerusalem and to restore the glories of their race, the chosen people are coming to the metropolis of the new world."

Czar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated on March 13, 1881. Seeking a scapegoat, the government and people [had] turned upon the Jews in pogroms in over a hundred towns and villages, wild excesses of violence, pillage, and plunder. The pogroms led in turn to the expulsion of Jews from the cities and villages of Russia and their exclusion from schools and universities, the legal profession and the government. The result was a massive wave of emigration of Russian Jews, many of them to America, doubling the Jewish population of the United States in the 1880s alone.

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Title: Their New Jerusalem

Sub heading: The Jewish population of New York last February was from 225,000 to 250,000 and this total will be increased by immigration during the rest of the last year 45,000 to 50,000. Instead of returning to the holy land to build up Jerusalem and to restore the glorious of the race the chosen people are coming to the metropolis of the New World. Of the 1200 wholesale firms occupying the buildings on Broadway from Canal Street to Union Square, it is estimated that one thousand are Jews. The aggregate of the capital controlled by 2,018 Jewish merchants in New York is estimated is $207,388,000. Their holdings of real estate in the town are estimated at from $150,000,000 and $200,000,000 million

Collection: Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection - 1111.01

Creator: Grant E. Hamilton

Other Creators: Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co.

Date: 1892