This week, a class about the rise in anti-Semitism in America between World War I and two.

American University professor Pamela Nadell describes the 1915 lynching of Jewish man Leo Frank in Georgia,

how international anti-Semitic texts made their way to America and Henry Ford's

role in spreading anti-Jewish sentiments. But during World War I, Ford's anti-Semitism became

increasingly manifest. He blamed the Jews for causing what was then called the Great War.

It wouldn't be called World War I until we have World War II.

More after this.

All right, all right.

Well, welcome everyone.

It's good to see everybody.

We're going to start.

Today's topic is anti-Semitism in America at high tide between World War I and World War II.

And the last time that we discussed anti-Semitism, we focused on the years between the Civil

War and the end of the 19th century, which you will remember was a period that historians called

the emergence of a full-fledged anti-Semitic society. So just for a second to refresh your memory,

one of the events in the emergence of that full-fledged anti-Semitic society was the exclusion of

Jews from hotels and places of public accommodation. And you remember that this refers to

Joseph Seligman being excluded from the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1877. You remember that we also

looked at slides like this one, where we see in this image, which is from a magazine, and its caption

is the dream of the Jews realized.

And you'll see that we talked about that how the sign

of John Smith's dry goods, which was put up in 1820,

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