Person
Louis Marshall
New York lawyer; president of the American Jewish Committee; drafted Henry Ford’s 1927 retraction.
- Dates
- 1856–1929
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- Q4882436
Connections 5
head of
- American Jewish Committee 1927 president Scholarship & press 1
intervened in
- The Dearborn Independent’s “International Jew” campaign protested to Ford by telegram Scholarship & press 2
involved in
- Ford’s retraction of 1927 drafted it Primary record 345
appears in
- Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate discussed Scholarship & press 6
- Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech discussed Scholarship & press 7
Timeline 2 dates
- 1856–1929 Louis Marshall
- 1927 Louis Marshall head of American Jewish Committee
Proof 7 sources
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America’s Most Dangerous Anti-Jewish Propagandist, The Atlantic, 7 Nov 2023.
Scholarship & press
That summer, Ford representatives enlisted Louis Marshall, the president of the American Jewish Committee, to help bring the “International Jew” debacle to a close.
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Henry Ford and the Jews: the story Dearborn didn’t want told, Bridge Michigan, 4 Feb 2019.
Scholarship & press
His first move was to send Ford a telegram, saying the articles “constitute a libel upon an entire people.”
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Statement by Henry Ford regarding charges against Jews made in his publications, with statement and reply by Louis Marshall (American Jewish Year Book), American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Year Book (via the Berman Jewish Policy Archive), 1927.
Primary record
I answered that there must be a complete retraction of all of the false charges made, a full apology and request for forgiveness
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Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
Louis Marshall, a prominent attorney and leading voice for Jewish and minority rights in the United States, drafted a statement of apology for Ford to sign.
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Henry Ford’s apology, Reform Judaism.
Scholarship & press
Ford then had one of his assistants sign the letter on his behalf
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A Titan of Industry and a Bigot, by Hardy Green, Business Week, 21 January 2002, Business Week (as reprinted by the Center for Online Judaic Studies), 21 Jan 2002.
Scholarship & press
Louis Marshall, a lawyer and president of the American Jewish Committee
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Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism, JSTOR Daily.
Scholarship & press
this apology—which helped restore Ford to his iconic status—was drafted by Louis Marshall, the president of the American Jewish Committee.
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