Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
There is not a single, solitary American-born citizen serving as officer
or director of those great unions which form part of the New York
Kehillah. These men have not the faintest idea of what America stands
for. They are not here to become Americanized, but to change America to
their own model. In this they have the articulated support of most of
the Jewish rabbis who have been very keen to explain that
_Americanization does not at all mean what the American means by it_.
America will have become what these people want it to be when America is
sovietized with Jewish radicals in control, and that is the objective
toward which they are working now.
The other officers of the Amalgamated are Jacob Petowsky, secretary, who
is a Russian Jew, and J. B. Salutsky, who is also a Russian Jew and
“National Director of the Educational Department,” which means that he
is the propagandist of the union in the United States.
Regarding the assertion that the great radical unions are not officered
by native-born citizens (the statement has been made that Russian Jews
do not usually complete their citizenship but stop short at the
“declaration of intention”), there is some interesting material in a
study of 2,000 presidents of Jewish organizations in New York City.
Of this number, 1,054 were born in Russia, 536 in Austro-Hungary, 90 in
Rumania, 64 in Germany and four in Palestine. These countries produced
89.1 per cent of Jewish leaders in New York.
Of this number, 531 entered the country between the ages of 14 and 21,
and 977 entered over the age of 21.
Of this number, 1,270 are still under 50 years of age.
These figures include all organizations from synagogues to trade unions.
How far they have been Americanized, or wish to be, can only be judged
by the policies and activities of the organizations which they direct.
The big Jewish labor organizations are the direct offspring of the
Jewish Socialist Bund of Russia. It is due to the propaganda of the Bund
in the United States that the united Hebrew trades have gone over to the
ranks of radicalism. Bundists swarmed to the United States after the
abortive revolution of 1905 at which time they failed to put Bolshevism
over in Russia, and these Bundists gave their time to the Bolshevizing
of the Hebrew Trade Unions in this country. An Agitation Bureau was
formed which propagated radical Socialism through the medium of the
Yiddish language, which is one of the official languages of the New York
Kehillah, made so by the demands of the Kehillah’s overwhelming radical
constituency.
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