The chief rabbi's funeral the untold story of America's largest antisemetic riot / Scott D. Seligman.

Author/creator Seligman, Scott D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
Descriptionxix, 223 pages illustrations, map 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Joseph, Jacob, 1848-1902--Death and burial.
New York (N.Y.). Police Department--History. --20th century.
Rabbi Joseph Funeral Riot, New York, N.Y., 1902
Jews--New York (State). --New York. --History. --20th century.
Antisemitism--New York (State). --New York. --History. --20th century.
Rabbis--New York (State). --New York. --Biography.
Police brutality--New York (State). --New York. --History. --20th century.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--History. --20th century.

Portion of title Untold story of America's largest antisemetic riot
Physical mediumillustrations
Physical mediummaps
Contents Unite the Hearts of Our Brethren -- An Old Fogy in Their Eyes -- Protect Our Holy Faith -- A Flower Transplanted to Uncongenial Soil -- One Solid Gang of Criminals -- Disgusted with the Corrupt Methods of the Police -- So Impressive a Funeral -- Get Out, You Sheenies! We'll Soak You! -- Club the Life Out of Them -- Commissioner Partridge Is a Sleepy Old Bubbie -- There Never Was Such an Outrage on Our Race -- Action Is Called For! Examples Should Be Made! -- Cross Is Cross with the Jews -- Driving Them Like a Lot of Hogs -- The Well-Considered Opinion of a Committee of Citizens -- The Trouble Was All Over When We Got There -- The Attack Was Deliberately Planned -- Because We Are Hebrews and the Police Are Irishmen -- A Direct Snub to the Commissioner -- These People Are Ignorant -- I Don't Need This Job -- I Withdraw the Statements Challenged.
Abstract "On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York's Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city's chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story R. Hoe and Company printing press factory towered over the intersection. Without warning, scraps of steel, iron bolts, and scalding water rained down and injured hundreds of mourners, courtesy of antisemitic factory workers. The police compounded the attack when they arrived on the scene: under orders from the inspector in charge, who made no effort to distinguish aggressors from victims, officers began beating up Jews, injuring dozens. To the Yiddish-language daily Forverts (Forward), the bloody attack on Jews was not unlike those many Russian Jews remembered bitterly from the old country. But this was America, not Russia, and the Jewish community wasn't going to stand for such treatment. Fed up with being persecuted, New York's Jews, whose numbers and political influence had been growing, set a pattern for the future by deftly pursuing justice for the victims. They forced trials and disciplinary hearings, accelerated retirements and transfers within the corrupt police department, and engineered the resignation of the police commissioner. Scott D. Seligman's The Chief Rabbi's Funeral is the first book-length account of this event and its aftermath. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-214) and index
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LCCN 2024020283
ISBN9781640126183 hardcover
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