This is a collection of essays first published in Henry Ford's newspaper The Dearborn Independent in 1920, presenting antisemitic conspiracy claims about Jewish influence. It is a historical document of propaganda, useful for studying the rhetoric and prejudices of that era.
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THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
The World's Foremost Problem
Being a Reprint of a Series of Articles Appearing in The Dearborn
Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
November, 1920
Preface
Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the
Question in other countries.
The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for a long time. Jews themselves have known this, even if Gentiles have not.
There have been periods in our own country when it has broken forth with a sullen sort of strength which presaged darker things to come.
Many signs portend that it is approaching an acute stage.
Not only does the Jewish Question touch those matters that are of common knowledge, such as financial and commercial control, usurpation of political power, monopoly of necessities, and autocratic
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