There’s No Place to Set One’s Foot Down
New York, United States, 1924. Political Cartoon
Jewish immigrants were opposed to new immigration restrictions put into place in the U.S. in the 1920s. They responded angrily in the Yiddish press. One such example is this 1924 cartoon by Mitchell Loeb in the New York Yiddish satirical weekly, Der groyse kundes (The Big Stick). A Jewish refugee attempts to set his foot down somewhere on the planet, only to be met with knives blade-side up and marked with the names of the countries that don’t want him: Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, America, Latvia, Palestine, Austria, Canada, Estonia, etc.
