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book when writing a Thomas Edison
biography. In it, he mentions Edison's
Staff Writer
relationship with Ford and cites a con-
the two men had on anti-
versation
icture Rabbi Leo Franklin
Semitism
during a camping trip.
of Temple Beth El, sitting
The
thought
was prompted again
in Henry Ford's office in
when the movie Schindler's List was
Dearborn. It is May 1920,
first broadcast on network television,
and Rabbi Franklin is more than a lit-
with
Ford Motor Company as spon-
tle concerned about the anti-Semitic
sor.
Baldwin
felt a sense of irony. He
venom being written in the Dearborn
reread
passages
from the Edison biog-
Independent, Ford's weekly newspaper.
raphy,
then decided to write
After a long conversation
`;M
g
the
new
book.
between the two neighbors
Archival
meeting notes
and friends, Ford summons
from
Fred
Black,
a
a stenographer to dictate
edito-
Independent
Dearborn
and sign a retraction letter.
26
rial
board
member,
revealed
But then, a telegram arrives
Ford to be a "manager by
from the American Jewish
surprise."
Committee in New York
He had a tendency to
demanding a retraction.
blurt
things out, discuss an
Ford jumps from his
idea
for
about 10 minutes,
chair, his face flushed, and
then
come
to a quick con-
says, "Let's go to lunch."
Neil Baldw in
clusion,
Baldwin
found. "He
After lunch he refused to
was
not
articulate
in dis-
sign any letter of retraction,
course,
but
episodic
in
speaking."
and the anti-Semitic venom continues
And when Ford finally printed an
for seven years.
apology
and retraction in the paper
In his book to be published this fall
just
before
Yom Kippur in 1927,
Henry Ford and the Jews (Public
Baldwin looked at copies of local rab-
Affairs, Inc., New York), author Neil
bis' sermons to see what was said
Baldwin used research from Ford's and
about Ford. Rabbi Franklin spoke of
Rabbi Franklin's archives to measure
the reaction of the "entire spectrum of anti-Semitism, but didn't mention
Ford's name as many other rabbis did.
the Jewish community to what Ford
After Ford's apology was published,
did and said regarding anti-Semitism."
Jewish
leaders told Rabbi Franklin it
Baldwin, of New Jersey, spent about
was
a
perfect
time to get back at him.
six weeks poring over the Franklin
Charles
Joseph,
editor of the Jewish
archives to research his book.
in
Pittsburgh,
said Rabbi
Criterion
Speaking before a crowd of 70 at
Franklin
should
solicit
Ford
for a $1
Temple Beth El on March 7, celebrat-
million
donation
to
the
American
ing the 20th anniversary of the
Jewish Committee.
archives, he told of the disbelief when
"This isn't the time to ask for money,"
the first issue of the Dearborn
Rabbi
Franklin replied. "I want to keep
Independent hit the stands on May 22,
Ford
in
our debt for a long time."
1920. About 20 prominent Jewish
Michael
Skinner, president of the
professionals at the Phoenix Social
Henry
Ford
Heritage Association in
Club in Detroit read it and thought
Dearborn,
said
Ford was "certainly not
such venom could only come from "a
perfect;
he
had
deep flaws."
bolt out of the blue, not from Henry
Ford's
grandson,
Henry Ford II,
Ford himself."
reached
out
to
the
Jewish
community.
They hoped he would vigorously deny
He
established
an
assembly
plant in
this in the following week's issue,
Israel
and
was
very
generous
to the
Baldwin said. When the follow-up col-
state
of
Israel,
on
a
personal
basis,
umn was worse, Rabbi Franklin was des-
through his friendship with Max Fisher
ignated by the club to meet with Ford.
and others, Skinner said. "The family
has certainly done everything they can
in the later generations to make up for
Apology Finally Comes
the mistakes of the founder." 111
Baldwin originally got his idea for a

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