{"id":1216,"date":"2017-12-20T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/remember-der-pass-vort-iss-chorch-vashington\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:55:34","slug":"remember-der-pass-vort-iss-chorch-vashington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/remember-der-pass-vort-iss-chorch-vashington\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRemember, Der Pass-Vort iss Chorch Vashington:\u201d Combating American Nazi Propaganda in the \u201cAnti-Nazi Bulletin\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nicole Greenhouse, Archivist at the Center for Jewish History<\/p>\n

Currently, I am working on a project to arrange and
\ndescribe a 100 linear foot accretion to the American Jewish Congress Records
\n(I-77) at the American Jewish Historical Society. As I work through the
\ncollection, I was struck by a run of the \u201cAnti-Nazi Bulletin\u201d that I found in a
\nfew boxes of the records. These serials are from a deaccession of materials
\nfrom the Jacob Blaustein Library
\nof the American Jewish Committee. They were likely added to the
\ncollection because a majority of
\nthe serials in the series are related to the American Jewish Congress and its
\nactivities. Although the \u201cAnti-Nazi Bulletin\u201d was not a project of the American
\nJewish Congress, the organization worked
\nthroughout its existence to combat anti-Semitism and discrimination.<\/p>\n

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The Anti-Nazi Bulletin, June 1939; American
\nJewish Congress, records; I-77; box 854; folder 15; American Jewish Historical
\nSociety, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.<\/i><\/p>\n

In fact, the \u201cAnti-Nazi Bulletin\u201d was the
\npublication of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights,
\nfounded in 1933. The aim of the organization under its first president, Samuel
\nUntermyer, was to raise awareness of Nazi activities and sympathies in the
\nUnited States and lead a boycott of Nazi goods. As public favor turned against
\nNazi Germany, the organization shifted its reporting on hate groups in the
\nUnited States. For example, Wilhelm Kunze (national
\nleader of the German-American Bund), August Klapprott, and Mathias Kohler, were
\narrested and convicted of violating a New Jersey state law that forbids the
\nincitement of racial and religious hatred. Here they are depicted as hiding
\nbehind the guise of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

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The Anti-Nazi Bulletin, September\/October 1940;
\nAmerican Jewish Congress, records; I-77; box 854; folder 15; American Jewish
\nHistorical Society, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.<\/i><\/p>\n

The artwork in the publications are striking,
\nequating the rise of Nazism as a threat on democracy and therefore, American
\nvalues. Uncle Sam often appears, literally stomping out fascism.<\/p>\n

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The Anti-Nazi Bulletin, July 1939; American
\nJewish Congress, records; I-77; box 854; folder 15; American Jewish Historical
\nSociety, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.<\/i><\/p>\n

Other cartoons depict Nazi leaders infiltrating
\nAmerican activities to push out propaganda to unsuspecting audiences. The
\npublication also uses the power of art to call out white supremacist groups,
\nspecifically the Ku Klux Klan, as Nazi sympathizers. Besides cartoons, the
\nbulletin also published images from pro-Nazi activities in the United States.
\nThe following image in this post is the back cover of the June 1940 issue, of a
\nNazi rally on Randall\u2019s Island in New York City. <\/p>\n

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The Anti-Nazi Bulletin, June 1940; American
\nJewish Congress, records; I-77; box 854; folder 15; American Jewish Historical
\nSociety, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.<\/i><\/p>\n

Although these images were taken over 75 years ago,
\nthey are still highly relevant. White supremacists in the United States, as we
\nsaw in Charlottesville in August of this year, use Nazi symbols to disseminate
\nhate against Jews, people of color, LGBTQ, and other minority groups. Using
\nhistorical resources, we can learn from organizations like the Anti-Nazi League
\nto Champion Human Rights to combat fascism and anti-Semitism in the present day
\nUnited States.<\/p>\n

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The Anti-Nazi Bulletin, September-October 1939;
\nAmerican Jewish Congress, records; I-77; box 854; folder 15; American Jewish
\nHistorical Society, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.<\/i><\/p>\n

Although this specific set of periodicals is
\ncurrently unavailable for view in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room, while the
\ncollection is being processed, a run of the publication is held by another of
\nthe partner institutions, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. You can view
\nthese materials in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room by logging into your Aeon
\naccount and requesting the item at this link: http:\/\/search.cjh.org\/beta:CJH_SCOPE:CJH_ALEPH000022312<\/a>.
\nIf you want to learn more about the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion
\nHuman Rights, the records are held by\u00a0the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the Columbia University
\nLibrary. The finding aid is here: http:\/\/findingaids.cul.columbia.edu\/ead\/nnc-rb\/ldpd_4079169\/<\/a>. Stay tuned for more dispatches from the
\nprocessing of the American Jewish Congress Records, the first 843 boxes are
\navailable for research: http:\/\/digifindingaids.cjh.org\/?pID=365446<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nicole Greenhouse, Archivist at the Center for Jewish History Currently, I am working on a project to arrange and describe a 100 linear foot accretion to the American Jewish Congress Records (I-77) at the American Jewish Historical Society. As I work through the collection, I was struck by a run of the \u201cAnti-Nazi Bulletin\u201d that I found in a few boxes of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,58,59,8,57],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-america","tag-anti-nazi","tag-anti-semitism","tag-history","tag-nicole-greenhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}