June 05, 1981
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…-distorting Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Interest in Ford will con- tinue as long as any effort is made to depict the object of his hatred as the Interna- tional Jew. Since the creation of his Flivver, as it was…
… Press) by David L. Lewis retains major value in the thoroughness of its research. Dr. Lewis (profes- sor of business history, Graduate School of Busi- ness Administration, Uni- versity of Michigan) de…
… expanding Ford book- shelf. American Jewish His- tory, the quarterly maga- zine of the American Jewish Historical Society, in a re- cent issue, carried an arti- cle, "Henry Ford and the In- ternational Jew…
…- vated the Ford hatred for Jews. * * * Ribuffo Article Shows Ford Bias DAVID LEWIS Periodical literature in- cludes many revealing ac- counts about the Ford legend. Exemplary is the article in the…
… current Uni- versity of Michigan Quar- terly Review by the eminent Jewish author and essayist, Charles Madison, who ex- poses the myth of the Five- Dollar-a-Day Ford grant for which he applied in his pre…
…-U of 111 student days. Dr. Ribuffo shows how Ford had begun to believe that "Jews defied Anglo- Saxon law." Commenting on the apology when he was sub- poenaed to appear at the trial conducted in the fed…
… thousands of copies of The International Jew; yet, de- HENRY FORD spite entreaties by Marshall and Bernstein, barely pub- licized his retraction in Europe. His subordinates intervened to halt circula- tion…
… nativist Gerald L.K. Smith that he had allowed Bennett to forge his signature on the retraction, hoped someday to reissue The International Jew and urged Smith to do so if he could not. "Partly due to Ford…
…' lax- ity, the series continued to circulate among the 'rabid Jew-baiters' whom the In- dependent professed to dis- dain. Norman Cohn esti- mates that The Interna- tional Jew 'probably did more than any…
… Ford's efforts. "Within the United States, The International Jew provided a 'usable past' for anti-Semites like Smith, who ultimately published an abridgement. As early as 1922, Norman Hapgood an- grily…