B. Ewnin. The Faithful Portrayal. Composed of Various revelations upon the Climax of an Anti-Semitic Topic on American Soil

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

S. Levine

New York

1907

FIRST EDITION

An indictment of the actions of the New York City Police Department following anti-Jewish violence during the funeral procession of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph of New York. The author regards the event as “the biggest anti-Jewish scandal in the history of New York” (p. 8). As the funeral procession reached the establishment of R. Hoe & Co., a number of ”missiles” were thrown at the crowd of thousands of Jews, whereupon the police, who were woefully under-represented, sought to curtail the resulting scuffles by “unprovoked and most brutal clubbing” of Jews, which in turn “encourag[ed] the culprits who [then] broke up the order of the funeral march”. Following an inquiry, the New York District Attorney is quoted as saying: “You cannot expect a jury to convict a policeman for clubbing a Jew” (p. 13). The author also examines other local anti-Semitic outrages in public schools, hotels and other commercial ventures