The International Jew
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The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem is a four volume set of books originally published and distributed in 1922 by Henry Ford, an American industrialist, automobile developer and manufacturer. Consisting of a collection of articles serialized in The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper owned by Ford. The text was inspired by the virulently antisemitic text, The Protocols of Zion, a repeatedly documented and proven to be a plagiarism.[1]
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[edit] Content
After publication in the periodical, the articles were compiled into a four volume set as follows: [2]
- Volume 1: The International Jew
- Volume 2: Jewish Activities in the United States
- Volume 3: Jewish Influence in American Life
- Volume 4: Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States
[edit] Influence on Hitler
Vincent Curcio wrote that these publications "were widely distributed and had great influence, particularly in Nazi Germany, where no less a personage than Adolf Hitler read and admired them. Hitler based several sections of Mein Kampf on his writings: indeed, Ford is the only American mentioned in Hitler's book. It can probably be said, as Lacey does, that no American contributed as much to the evils of Nazism as Henry Ford."[3]
[edit] Libel suit, 1927
A libel lawsuit brought by San Francisco lawyer and Jewish farm cooperative organizer Aaron Sapiro in response to antisemitic remarks led Ford to close the Independent in December 1927. News reports at the time quoted him as being shocked by the content and having been unaware of its nature. During the trial, the editor of Ford's "Own Page", William Cameron, testified that Ford had nothing to do with the editorials even though they were under his byline. Cameron testified at the libel trial that he never discussed the content of the pages or sent them to Ford for his approval.[4] Investigative journalist Max Wallace noted that "whatever credibility this absurd claim may have had was soon undermined when James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.[5] According to Michael Barkun, "That Cameron would have continued to publish such controversial material without Ford's explicit instructions seemed unthinkable to those who knew both men. Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, a Ford family intimate, remarked that "I don't think Mr. Cameron ever wrote anything for publication without Mr. Ford's approval"".[6]
[edit] Legacy
The Dearborn Independent ceased publication in 1927 - Ford had a change of heart.
In 1934, The Patriotic Publishing Co., an unincorporated entity that operated out of a post office box [8] "Issued" and "Compiled and edited" the "The Protocols" as an expanded 300-page tome. The expansion from less than 100 pages to 300 pages was made possible by lifting substantial sections from The Dearborn Independent. Most of the later imprints of the Protocols are derived from this 1934 edition.
Distribution of The International Jew was halted in 1942[citation needed], but extremist groups often recycle the material; it still appears on anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi websites.
[edit] References
- ^ "Jewish World Plot": An Exposure. The Source of "The Protocols of Zion". Truth at LastPDF by Philip Graves published in The Times, August 16-18, 1921
- ^ The International Jew. The Worlds Foremost Problem. Being a Reprint of a Series of Articles Appearing in The Dearborn Independent from May 22 ... 1920 [to January 14, 1922] Dearborn, Mich.: Dearborn Publishing Co., 1920-1922
- ^ Curcio, Vincent (2001). Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514705-7, p. 211.
- ^ Lewis, (1976) pp. 140-156; Baldwin p 220-221.
- ^ Wallace, p. 30.
- ^ Barkun, Michael (1996). Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. UNC Press. ISBN 0-8078-4638-4, p. 35.
- ^ The International Jew Arabic edition. Publisher: Dar al-Fadhilah, Cairo, Egypt. Translator: ‘Ali al-Gawhari. The International Jew: a commercial success in Egypt
- ^ P.O. Box 526, Chicago, IL
[edit] External link
- The New York Public Library, Catalog Record [1]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Primary Sources
- The Ford International Weekly
- The Dearborn Independent
- (Dearborn, Mich.: Suburban Pub. Co., 1901-1927)
- CATNYP: [2]
- The International Jew, The World's Foremost Problem:
- Being a Reprint of a Series of Articles Appearing in The Dearborn Independent
- from May 22 ... 1920 [to January 14, 1922]
- (Dearborn, Mich.: Dearborn Pub. Co., 1922)
- OCLC: 42073629 [3]
- Henry Ford; Egyptian Translator: ‘Ali al-Gawhari
[edit] Secondary Sources
- Henry's Lieutenants
- (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993)
- ISBN 0-8143-2428-2 (paper)
- Henry Ford and the Jews
- (New York: Stein and Day, 1980)
- ISBN 0-81282701-5
- Max Wallace
- The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich
- (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003)
- ISBN 0-312-29022-5
