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Article: Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate.(Neil Baldwin)
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- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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New York: Public Affairs Press, 2001. Pp. 432. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $27.50.
In September 1916, four years before the Dearborn Independent's anti-Semitic onslaught, Ernest G. Liebold, Henry Ford's "watchdog," informed Rabbi Leo Franklin of Detroit's Temple Beth El that his request to let Jewish employees off work for the Jewish high holy days had been granted. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle touted the company's response in the headline, "A Gracious Act on the Part of the Ford Motor Company." Although this minor event does not appear in Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate, Neil Baldwin shows clearly enough the paradoxical and eccentric ...