Sanctioned bigotry : a documentary history of antisemitism in the United States / edited by Britt P. Tevis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tevis, Britt P., editor.

Series:

The Yale Judaica Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--United States--History--Primary sources.

Antisemitism.

Jews--United States--Social conditions--Primary sources.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Public opinion--Primary sources.

Genre:

Primary sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 619 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Documentary history of antisemitism in the United States

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Using a remarkable array of primary sources, Tevis traces the history of antisemitism in the United States from 1654 to 2024. Comprising government reports, judicial decisions, correspondence, advertisements, cartoons, social media posts, and more, this documentary reader presents examples of antisemitism in nine overlapping categories: church and state, disenfranchisement, racialization, defamation, antisemitism and anti-Black racism, immigration and citizenship, exclusion and segregation, violence, and anti-Zionism. Tevis also shows how Jews have reacted to instances of inequality and have negotiated their place in America, both as individuals and as a community. Collectively, these documents expose readers to the underexplored history of anti-Jewish discrimination in America, and the ways that Jews have championed and defended American ideals in the face of inequality."-- Amazon.com

Contents:

Introduction

One | Church and State

1. Constitution of South Carolina (Excerpt) (1778)

2. Letter to U.S. President George Washington, Jonas Phillips (1787)

3. Petition to Maryland State Legislature, Solomon Etting (1797)

4. Petition to End Sunday Mail in the United States, Inhabitants of Riga, New York (1828)

5. "The New Christian Sabbath Law T," he Sacramento Bee (1858)

6. An Act to Provide for the Better Observance of the Sabbath, California State Assembly (1858)

7. Protest of Proposed Constitutional Amendment Declaring America a Christian Nation, Board of Delegates of American Israelites (1864)

8. Petition to End Slavery in the Unites States (1865)

9. Protest of Proposed Amendment to North Carolinian Constitution, Myer S. Isaacs (1866)

10. "King Kennedy and the Purim Festival, The " New York Herald (1868)

11. Letter to Myer Isaacs Re: Sabbath Examinations, City College of New York President Alex S. Webb (1872)

12. Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States (Excerpts), U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Brewer (1892)

13. "Orthodox Jews Will Be Barred," New York Tribune (1902)

14. Letter to the Committee on Codes of the New York Senate and Assembly (Excerpts), Louis Marshall (1908)

15. Letter Re: Dismissal of Philip Sklar, Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson (1916)

16. Petition to Amend the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, Pastor Dr. McCalincrock of Congregation of the United Presbyterian Church, Sebring, Ohio (1923)

17. House Bill 71 (Excerpt), State of Louisiana (2024)

Two | Disenfranchisement

1. "Judicial Bias," The Sun (1893)

2. "A Complaint," Emanuel Hertz (1897)

3. Letter to New York City Mayor William J. Gaynor, Morris Hillquit (1911).

4. "Election Law Final," The Baltimore Sun (1915)

5. "Plan to Prevent Hebrews from Voting, The News " (Paterson, NJ) (1915)

6. "Along the Color Line," The Crisis (1929)

7. "Is Communism World Jewry in Action?," Pelley Publishers (1939)

8. Dallas County District Attorney's Circular, Bill Alexander (1963)

9. Jury Selection in a Criminal Case (Excerpts), Jon Sparling (1969)

10. Michaelson ex rel. Lewis v. Booth, Judge Francis J. Boyle (1977)

11. "Opening Statements Today in Friedman Corruption Trial" (Excerpt), Reporter Dispatch (1986)

12. "Exclusion of Jews as Jurors Is Seen, T" he New York Times (1988)

13. Note on Potential Juror, Alameda County District Attorney (c. 1990s)

Three | Racialization

1. Cursory Remarks on Men and Measures in Georgia (Excerpts), Citizen (1784)

2. "Police Items," National Police Gazette (1848)

3. Dun &amp

Bradstreet Report, Credit Assessor (c. 1841-1875)

4. "Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement Southern ," Californian (1854)

5. "The Jewish Race," Harper's Weekly (1865)

6. "How We May Know Him," Telemachus Thomas Timayenis (1888)

7. Response to the Editor of The American Hebrew, Minister Henry Clay Trumbull (1890)

8. Wanted Bulletin, Chicago Police Department (1891)

9. Hygiene in University Education (Excerpt), John S. Billings (1894)

10. Letter to Simon Wolf, U.S. Acting Secretary of State Alvey Adee (1903)

11. Letter to U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor William R. Wheeler, W. W. Husband (1908)

12. Reports of the Immigration Commission, Dictionary of Races or Peoples Map, William Z. Ripley (1910)

13. Letter to Isi Fischer, U.S. Acting Secretary of the Bureau of Immigration (1911)

14. Letter to Columbia University Trustee George L. Rives, William Barclay Parsons (1913).

15. Manual of Instructions for Medical Advisory Boards (Excerpt), U.S. Surgeon General's Office (1917)

16. The Management of Men (Excerpts), U.S. Brigadier General Edward L. Munson (1921)

17. The Menace of Modern Immigration (Excerpts), Hiram W. Evans (1924)

18. Letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a New Orleans Resident (1933)

19. Letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Re: German Jewish Refugees, a Baltimore Resident (1933)

20. Some Aspects of the Women's Apparel Industry (Excerpt), Sherman Trowbridge (1936)

21. "Rats, Fleas, Jews," Nation &amp

Race (1937)

22. Underwriting Manual of the Federal Housing Administration (Excerpts), Frederick Babcock and Homer Hoyt (1938)

23. Letter to Cornell University Union Head Foster M. Coffin, University of Minnesota Union Director G. R. Higgins (1941)

24. Diary Entry, U.S. General George S. Patton (1945)

25. Letter to U.S. Congressman John E. Rankin (Excerpts), a New Jersey Housewife (1946)

26. Letter to U.S. Congressman Ed Gossett, a Veteran (1949)

27. Remarks of U.S. Congressmen Clare E. Hoffman and John E. Rankin (1952)

28. Letter to N.Y. State Assemblyman Grant W. Johnson (Excerpts), a Lake Champlain Fisherman (1958)

29. "A Job for the Exterminator," National Youth Alliance (1975)

Four | Defamation

1. "Our New Citizen, B. Monowski," Geo. Topp. (1882)

2. "Causes of Fire" (Excerpt), Boston Fire Marshal Charles Whitcomb (1890)

3. "The Commercial Vampire," Leon Barritt (1898)

4. "The International Jew," The Dearborn Independent (1920)

5. Military Intelligence Division Memo Re: Surveilling Jews (1920)

6. The "Protocols" Bolshevism and the Jews: An Address to Their Fellow-Citizens by American Jewish Organizations (Excerpts), American Jewish Committee (1920).

7. "Let Us Unite the Nation" Pamphlet (Excerpt), United Community Builders (1934-1935)

8. Letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, ONE WHO KNOWS (1936)

9. 14th Ward Civic Committee of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill Campaign Letter, Anonymous (1937)

10. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Excerpt), George Edward Sullivan (1937)

11. Why Pick on the Jew? (Excerpts), Silver Legion of America (1938)

12. Letter to Mr. Hogan, National Gentile League Director Donald Shea (1939)

13. Letter to U.S. Congressman John E. Rankin, a Dinuba, California, Resident (1945)

14. "Paris Newspaper Reveals FDR's Secret Offer to Share World's Rule with Kremlin" (Excerpt), San Francisco Examiner (1951)

15. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Opinion and Dissent, Commissioner Kenneth A. Cox (1966)

16. U.S. President Richard Nixon Recording (1971)

17. Postcard to Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Anonymous (1975)

18. Postcard to Boston Abortion Clinic, Anonymous (1989)

19. The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One (Excerpts), Nation of Islam Historic Research Department (1991)

20. "Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg" Tweet, U.S. Congressman Kevin McCarthy (2018)

21. "Every Single Aspect of the COVID Agenda Is Jewish" Flyer, Goyim Defense League (2021)

22. "The ADL" Tweet, Candace Owens (2024)

Five | Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism

1. Grand Jury Indictment, Chief Justice of South Carolina William Henry Drayton (1776)

2. "A Skin Game," V. Ostenbach (1884)

3. Whitecap Constitution (Excerpt), Whitecaps (1893)

4. "The Lawyers Warned," The Magnolia Gazette (Mississippi) (1894)

5. Agenda of the Administrative Committee of the University of Minnesota Senate, Ray P. Chase (1936)

6. Christian Anti­-Jewish Party Flyer, J. B. Stoner (1955).

7. Letter to New York City Commissioner of Correction Anna Kross, "A Hitler Man" (1961)

8. "50 Reasons Why You Should Be a Member of the Original Ku Klux Klan," Roy Elonza Davis (1963)

9. Ku Klux Klan Handbill, Unidentified Klansman (1964)

10. "Why You Should Become a Klanswoman" (Excerpts), Unidentified Klansman (1965)

11. Documented Proof: Jews Behind Race Mixing (Excerpts), Edward R. Fields (1969)

12. Counterintelligence Report Re: Indianapolis Black Nationalist Movement (Excerpt), Federal Bureau of Investigation Field Officer (1970)

Six | Immigration and Citizenship

1. Petition to Expel Jews from New Amsterdam, Governor Peter Stuyvesant (1654)

2. "The Stranger at Our Gate," Frank Beard (1896)

3. Memo Re: Classification of Jews as Race, U.S. Bureau of Immigration (1903)

4. Immigration Regulation League Fundraising Letter, Jesse Taylor (1910)

5. Editorial Renouncing Immigrant Literacy Tests, Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber (1916)

6. Memo to Military Intelligence Division Observer Re: Jewish Immigration (Excerpts), Major T. W. Hollyday (1920)

7. Memo to Military Intelligence Division Director Re: Jewish Immigrants, Major T. W. Hollyday (1920)

8. House Report Re: Temporary Suspension of Immigration (Excerpts), U.S. House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (1920)

9. House Report Re: Restriction of Immigration (Excerpts), U.S. House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (1921)

10. Letter to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, Patriotic Order of the Sons of America National Secretary Herman A. Miller (1924)

11. U.S. Senate Immigration Committee Testimony, Immigration Restriction League of New York City Representative Francis H. Kinnicut (1924)

12. Report on Conference Relative to the Rejection of Prospective Hebrew Immigrants at Warsaw, Poland, Dr. Lawrence Kolb (1927)

13. Letter to U.S Secretary of State Cordell Hull (Excerpts), a New York City Doctor (1933).

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-300-28967-7

9780300289671

OCLC:

1584468067