Sarna describes ford as having conservative social and political views and disliking this saw jews and their progressive beliefs as the antithesis of his value system. This class is about an hour and 15 minutes. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Last time, we looked broadly at hatred during world war i and we looked at immigration restriction, which was in some ways related to that, and we looked at the ku klux klan and we spent a lot of time on the translation of the forgeries of the protocols of the elders of lyon. And we mentioned some of the antiimmigrant rhetoric associated with prohibition. What i want to do today is focus on the person who really did more than anyone else to fan the flames of antisemitism in the 1920s, and that was none other than the famous american industrialist henry ford. Henry ford is a great hero to Many Americans. There were lots of people who wanted henry ford to run for president in 1924. But as we will see, he refused jew jews, for understandable r
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And distribute the deerborn independent. So it is going to be a much more important newspaper than you know had he just remained a very local newspaper in deerborn, and he buys the paper and sets it up, gets going in 1919. Its called the deerborn independent but honestly it wasnt independent at all. Its a free country call it whatever you like, independent but it was actually totally dependent on the Ford Motor Company. And not surprisingly if you were to read a run of the paper, its views and the views of henry ford are remarkably similar. That shouldnt surprise us. You know, that would be true of any newspaper that reflects the views of its owners. But the paper is very much in favor of pacifism. It likes prohibition, meaning thateih n its in favor of limiting alcohol, which ford thought was wicked. It supports all sorts of old traditions. One of the most Interesting Articles and the title of the article tells you a lot about the outlook of henry ford is an editorial that was entitle
Education. My dad a fifth grade education. They were seeking better opportunities for their children. They work very hard, and sacrificed, like so many will do in this country, because they wanted a better promise for this country. They really taught us important values that have been our guide for me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. They taught us the importance of family, of faith, of Community Hard work, sacrifice, honesty, integrity. All of those were important values they shared with us. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on q a. Next, Brandeis University professor Jonathan Tsarnaev talks about how industrialist henry ford founded and supported a newspaper which published antijewish articles. Henry Fords International weekly, the dearborn independent, published an article in 1920 describing the International Jew as the worlds foremost problem. The articles were later published as a series of books. This class is about an hour and 15 minutes. All right. Good afternoon