ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 6. No Dogs or Jews Allowed: The Story of Antisemitism in America.

Part of Series ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience
Length 58:53
Licensor The Radio Foundation, Inc.
Producer(s) Larry Josephson; Sarah Elzas; and Sara Porath
Formats Archival, Documentary, Interview
Topics Historical
Produced April 20, 2007
Added to PRX May 1, 2007
 

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Summary:

The Story of Antisemitism in America - Father Coughlin, Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh publicly denounce Jews - Joe Lieberman chosen to run for Vice-President

Additional Credits and Funding:

Host and Executive Producer: Larry Josephson
Readers: John Lithgow and Paul Hecht
Produced by Larry Josephson, Sarah Elzas and Sara Porath
Editor: Sarah Elzas
Recording Engineers: Bill Siegmund, Robert Auld, Greg Smith and Andrew Morris Of Buzzy's Recording in Los Angeles
Postproduction Engineering: David Rapkin and Robert Auld
Historical Consultant: Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University
Resident Radio Doctor: Marty Goldensohn
Script Consultant: Paul Fischer
Researchers: Sarah Kramer, Adam Goodkind, Frannie Carr, Elinoar Astrinsky, Rosa Goldensohn, Maisie Tivnan, Rae Lyn Grogan and Diana Green.

Funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The National Endowment for the Arts, Saul and Stanley Zabar and Zabar's, Edwin A. Goodman, Harvey and Thelma Reisman, The John L. Loeb, Jr. Foundation; Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu and from one anonymous donor.

Archival material supplied by Andy Lanset from the WNYC Archives; and by John Kalish; The Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library; The American Jewish Committee's Oral History Collection; The Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site; The Anti-Defamation League and The American Jewish Committee.

Tones:

Engaging, Informational, Personal

Language:

English

Description:

Antisemitism rose and fell from 1654 through the Civil War, the Gilded Age and from 1920-1945. John Lithgow reads Governor Peter Stuyvesant's letter to The Dutch West India Company asking for permission to expel the 23 Jews, calling them, "blasphemers of the name of Christ." Lithgow also reads General Grant's infamous Order # 11, banning all Jews from the area under his command, and Lincoln's telegram reversing that order. The program includes clips from Father Coughlin's antisemitic radio rants and from Charles Lindbergh's isolationist speeches accusing the Jews of pushing America into World War II.

Antisemitism gradually ended after Word War II; quotas and restrictions had disappeared by the sixties. Al Gore's selection of Senator Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, as his running mate in 2000 was the symbolic end of American antisemitism.

Narrated and produced by Larry Josephson.