Jew who has been knocked down by fire engine

“Jew (who has been knocked down by fire engine)”, An H.G.L. Antisemitic Comic Postcard

This Edwardian comic postcard by Henry Garner of Leicester, trading as the Living Picture Post Card Co. (H.G.L.), shows a horse‑drawn fire engine racing toward a burning building while a stereotyped Jewish figure is knocked to the ground in the foreground.

The caption reads:

“Jew, (who has been knocked down by fire engine)
Go on you ungrateful wretches if it wasn’t for the likes of me, you’d have nothing to do.’”

The image and text work together to suggest that Jews cause fires, or at least profit from them, and that the fire brigade owes its livelihood to such Jewish wrongdoing. This turns the Jew into an arsonist or fraudulent profiteer, a familiar antisemitic trope in early twentieth‑century popular culture. Within the postcard trade, however, this was marketed simply as a humorous “Living Picture” comic, one of many ethnic and social stereotype cards produced by H.G.L. in the years around 1904–1910, reflecting how casual antisemitism could be packaged as everyday entertainment.