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Line 4: '''Jew with a coin''' ({{lang-pl\|Żyd z pieniążkiem}}),<ref name="Tartakowsky"/><ref name="Tokarska-Bakir2012"/><ref name="Tokarska-Bakir2019"/> "Little Jews" ({{lang-pl\|Żydki}})<ref name="haaretz20141120"/>, or '''Lucky Jew''' ({{lang-pl\|Żyd na szczęście"}})<ref name="Tartakowsky"/> are images and figurines of Jews holding coins. As of the early 21st century, they are popular items in [[Poland]].<ref name="haaretz20141120"/><ref name="JTA20180818"/><ref name="Tokarska-Bakir2012"/><ref name="TOI20141229"/> Scholars offer differing interpretations on the nature and origin of the motif. While the images draw upon traditional [[Antisemitic canard#Usury and profiteering\|antisemitic caricature of Jewish moneylender]],<ref name="Cala"/><ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39121018/Lucky_Jews Luck Jews?] Pictures + Essay by Erica Lehrer in [[Jewish Museum London]]'s 2019 ''Jews, Money, Myth'' exhibition catalog</ref> opinions vary on the nature of this motif ranging from harmless folklore or nostalgia to offensive or antisemitic.<ref name="Vice20131010">[https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qbnewm/hey-poland-whats-up-with-those-lucky-jew-statues Hey Poland, What's Up with Those Lucky Jew Statues?], Vice, Ilana Belfer, 10 October 2013</ref><ref name="JTA20180818">[https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-lucky-jew-imagery-is-so-popular-in-poland/ Why ‘Lucky Jew’ imagery is so popular in Poland], Times of Israel (JTA reprint), 18 August 2018</ref><ref name="haaretz20141120"/><ref name="LehrerUSHMM"/> Scholars offer differing interpretations on the nature of the motif. Cultural studies Paweł Dobrosielski notes the underlying antisemitic theme is tamed and redirected to a positive meaning.<ref name="Tartakowsky"/> Polish anthropologist [[Joanna Tokarska-Bakir]] notes that given that Polish society has enriched itself from the Jews in the Holocaust, the custom is [[grotesque]]; However, Tokarska-Bakir sees the custom as a [[Sigmund Freud\|Freudian]] sign of guilt and perhaps as a twisted sign of moral initiation that the Polish [[collective consciousness]] might be preparing for.<ref name="Tokarska-Bakir2012"/><ref name="Tokarska-Bakir2019"/> Sociologist Ewa Tartakowsky ties the popularity of the figures to the public discourse on the Holocaust in Poland, that began with [[Jan T. Gross]]'s publication of [[Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland]]. Tartakowsky notes the [[reappropriation]] of Jewish figures is deeply ambiguous, but is troubling due to the modern political context and stereotyping.<ref name="Tartakowsky"/> They are used as [[good luck charm]]s by football fans, who however blame the Jew if their team loses.<ref name="JC20141204"/><ref name="Wichtel"/> They are commonly used as a good luck charm for enrichment, placed in offices and in shops next to cash registers.<ref name="TOI20141229"/> In homes, they are placed in the hall left of the doorway.<ref name="Tartakowsky"/><ref name="Tokarska-Bakir2012"/> Some owners of the figurines flip them over on the [[sabbath]], some placing a coin (grosz, 1/100 of a [[Polish złoty\|złoty]]) behind the image,<ref name="Tartakowsky"/> so that money and good fortune may fall upon the family living in the house.<ref name="Tartakowsky"/><ref name="JTA20180818"/><ref name="TOI20141229"/>