{"product_id":"the-chief-rabbis-funeral-the-untold-story-of-americas-largest-antisemitic-riot-hardback-9781640126183","title":"The Chief Rabbi's Funeral; The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot (Hardback) 9781640126183","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Chief Rabbi's Funeral\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eScott D. Seligman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781640126183\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 20 photographs, 13 illustrations, 1 map, 1 chronology, 1 glossary, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.512 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Seligman's retelling of this largely forgotten incident of anti-Jewish violence could hardly be more timely. . . . A valuable history of violent assault finds newfound relevance.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Chief Rabbi's Funeral\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length account of an almost forgotten event and its aftermath.\"-J. Fischel, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"There is much to be learned about the plight of Jews in America and Scott D. Seligman has handed the masses a resource for further understanding. \u003ci\u003eThe Chief Rabbi's Funeral\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for fans of history as well as the reader who desires for America to truly be a place of morality and love for all people.\"-\u003ci\u003eReader Views Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A well-researched, well-written, and all-too-timely account of the antisemitic riot that marred the 1902 funeral of New York’s chief rabbi, Jacob Joseph. Prejudice, police brutality, and widespread corruption lay at the root of the riot, Scott Seligman shows. His analysis of how Jews held government accountable for punishing the rioters and penalizing the police who abetted them carries instructive lessons for our time.”-Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A fascinating and sad account of a low moment in the history of American Jews. To his credit, the author recognizes complexity on many levels. . . . Most significantly, Scott Seligman describes the new efforts of the Jewish community to stand up for itself, a harbinger of advocacy work on behalf of the community that remains so vital to this day.”-Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Until now no one has detailed this outbreak with such detail as Scott Seligman, in his lively discussion of the story of victims, perpetrators, observers, police, and city officials. Individuals who previously were but names noted in a newspaper or police blotter come alive.”-Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In this well-written book, based on a treasure trove of sources thus far overlooked, Scott Seligman revisits the events that took place at Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph’s funeral, uncovers numerous aspects, insights, and unknown details, and provides an intimate, sensitive, and flowing narrative of this event. . . . [A] warmly recommended read for whoever is interested in the mass immigration era, the Jewish immigrant community in New York, and the history of Jewish Orthodoxy in the United States.”-Kimmy Caplan, professor of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGold Medal for the 2024 Reader Views Literary Awards in History\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2024 Reader Views Literary Awards in Regional: North-East\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book Fest \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To the Yiddish-language daily \u003ci\u003eForverts\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e), the bloody attack on Jews was not unlike those that 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Chief Rabbi’s Funeral\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length account of this event and its aftermath.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Author’\u003cbr\u003es Note\u003cbr\u003e Chronology    \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDramatis Personae     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prologue         \u003cbr\u003e Chapter I: “\u003cbr\u003eUnite the Hearts of Our Brethren”\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cbr\u003e Chapter II: “\u003cbr\u003eAn Old Fogy in Their Eyes”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e Chapter III: “\u003cbr\u003eProtect Our Holy Faith”\u003cbr\u003e           \u003cbr\u003e Chapter IV: “\u003cbr\u003eA Flower Transplanted to Uncongenial Soil”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter V: “\u003cbr\u003eOne Solid Gang of Criminals”\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter VI: “\u003cbr\u003eDisgusted With the Corrupt Methods of the Police”\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter VII: “\u003cbr\u003eSo Impressive a Funeral”\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e Chapter VIII: “\u003cbr\u003eGet Out, You Sheenies! We’\u003cbr\u003ell Soak You!”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter IX: “\u003cbr\u003eClub the Life Out of Them”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e Chapter X: “\u003cbr\u003eCommissioner Partridge is a Sleepy Old Bubbie”\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XI: “\u003cbr\u003eThere Never Was Such an Outrage on Our Race”\u003cbr\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XII: “\u003cbr\u003eAction is Called for! Examples Should be Made!”\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XIII: “\u003cbr\u003eCross is Cross With the Jews”\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XIV: “\u003cbr\u003eDriving Them Like a Lot of Hogs”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XV: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Well-Considered Opinion of a Committee of Citizens”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XVI: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Trouble Was All Over When We Got There”\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XVII: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Attack Was Deliberately Planned”\u003cbr\u003e       \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XVIII: “\u003cbr\u003eBecause We are Hebrews and the Police are Irishmen”\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XIX: “\u003cbr\u003eA Direct Snub to the Commissioner”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter XX: “\u003cbr\u003eThese People are Ignorant”\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XXI: “\u003cbr\u003eI Don’\u003cbr\u003et Need This Job”\u003cbr\u003e         \u003cbr\u003e Chapter XXII: “\u003cbr\u003eI Withdraw the Statements Challenged”\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e Further Reading         \u003cbr\u003e Glossary         \u003cbr\u003e Notes  \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Potomac Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743746781464,"sku":"9781640126183","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-chief-rabbis-funeral-the-untold-story-of-americas-largest-antisemitic-riot-hardback-9781640126183","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}