Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
“Any law,” he said, “which appears to be obnoxious to the self-centered
Jewish element, is deliberately ignored by them, or opposed with a
stubborn resistance which neither time nor education seems to mitigate.
The result is that our Magistrates’ Courts and the Court of Special
Sessions are crowded with cases of violations of that character. The
newly arrived Jews especially are apparently determined to subordinate
this country to their own desires, rather than to accommodate themselves
to the conditions here as other races do.
“The most blatant, example of this attitude is in connection with the
law relating to Sabbath breaking. Our Penal Law is plain and specific on
this matter. It states:
The first day of the week, being by general consent set apart for
rest and religious uses, the law prohibits the doing on that day of
certain acts hereinafter specified, which are serious interruptions
of the repose and religious liberty of the community.
A violation of the foregoing prohibition is Sabbath breaking.
“Sabbath breaking is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine or by
imprisonment in a county jail, and where the offense is aggravated by a
previous conviction, the fine and jail sentence are doubled. Yet the
various acts specified as Sabbath breaking are violated openly and with
insolent impunity by thousands of Jews every Sunday in New York. Their
race has much to say about its own religious liberty, but it thinks
nothing of outraging the religious liberties of other races. If any
serious attempt were made to enforce this statute in the Jewish
districts, the police would be compelled to arrest the larger part of
the population.
“These Jews are determined to trade and traffic and to keep their
factories and workshops going on the American Sunday. They impose their
will upon the greatest city in the United States, through silent
resistance and the sheer force of numbers.
“The Jews of whom I am speaking are mostly from Eastern Europe—Russia,
Galicia, and Poland. They are of the first or second generation of
immigrants. They generally speak and read only the Yiddish tongue. _But
it is a deplorable fact that Americanized Jews of prominence, openly
encourage these ignorant people in their defiance of the law._ Whenever
Yiddish tradesmen and manufacturers are arrested for Sabbath breaking,
hosts of Jewish lawyers spring to their defense, and powerful Jewish
societies intervene to protect them. The Jewish Sabbath Alliance, with
offices on Fifth Avenue, _conducts a constant propaganda among the
ghetto people, urging them to insist upon their alleged legal right_ to
pursue their ordinary vocations on the American Sunday. And it provides
them with legal counsel when they get into trouble.
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