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
Another caller is Judah L. Magnes, head of the New York Kehillah. He is
a rabbi without a synagogue, an extreme extremist, a master of the
language of agitation, and pro-Bolshevist in his influence and
associations. He is credited with being the mediator between rich Jews
and radicals when the latter are in need of funds. This is the Judah L.
Magnes, head of the Kehillah, who tried to tell New York newspaper
reporters what a weak and innocent foundling the New York Kehillah is;
the same Judah L. Magnes whom the _American Hebrew_ tried to picture as
a diaphanous idealist broken-hearted because the ghetto doesn’t fall in
with his educational schemes. The Kehillah is _not_ an educational
institution; it is _not_ a welfare institution in the charitable sense;
it is a nerve-center of Jewish power; in Rabbi Magnes’ own words, “a
clearing house”; and if it amounted to nothing politically and
nationally, the men who are now prominent in it would soon desert it.
Kehillah is just what the word signifies—the whole Jewish community.
Then, of course, there are Benjamin Schlessinger again, president of the
Ladies’ Garment Workers, and Sydney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Joseph Schlossberg, another
Amalgamated official whose Bolshevik utterances were quoted earlier in
this article, and others of the Hebrew trades crowd whose radical
relationships have been shown.
In addition, there are certain immigration inspectors from Ellis
Island—all Jews, of course; occasionally a courier from Russia who has
slipped into the country for a secret purpose; occasionally also a
courier to Russia bearing messages from Recht and Hourwich.
Then I. W. W. leaders—Jews. Among them Baletin, secretary of the I. W.
W. Metal Machinery Workers’ Branch, and Peltner, joint secretary of the
I. W. W. branches in New York.
In close touch with these Jewish radicals are a number of revolutionists
of other countries, representing various violent programs against the
established order.
It is through the office of Charles Recht that passports, issued by the
State Department of the government of the United States, are being
viséed. This statement refers to a regular practice known to have been
followed until a few days preceding this writing, and there is no reason
to believe it has since been altered. Ambassador Recht, or Acting
Ambassador Recht, or whatever he may be called, is in close touch with
Soviet authorities and has full notice of all their intentions regarding
American affairs.
A frequent subject of conferences in Recht’s office is the Soviet
propaganda in America. Men like Hillman and Schlossberg and Schlessinger
are merely liaison officers between the Soviets and the Hebrew trades
unions. The orders received from Moscow are thus transmitted to the Jews
in America, and are obeyed along perfectly defined lines.
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