The assigned reading came with an explicit warning about the anti-semitsm, which is the exact opposite of pushing it or supporting it. The alternative would be to give sanitized or censored versions of history, which IMO is the best way to encourage repetition of the worst of it.

There has always been bigotry in America’s and the world’s history. Bigotry is alive today.
To pretend it doesn’t exist is the absolutely worst way of fighting it. This assignment is an excellent example of how warped minds think and how ugly and pernicious this thinking is. It’s a lesson in how not to be. To censor it would have meant there is one such needed lesson less in the world.

This is the reverse of the reaction to suspicions being floated around that PBS censored a documentary film on Islamists. These dots have no connecting line.

We have to use Irving Berlin, Alexanders Ragtime Band, an interview with Eubie Blake: here; Anne Shaw Faulkner, Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation; and the one above. About the above article it says, “Het artikel wordt gekleurd door een virulent anti-semitisme, maar het geeft tussen de regels door ook aardige informatie over de vroege muziek-scene in de VS.” Which means something like “The article is colored by a virulent anti-semitism, but it gives nice information about the early music-scene in the US between the lines.”

It all began in May, 1934, when Chris Baker opened a beer and sandwich restaurant. His son Clarence Baker began to work for him at the age of 15. Five years later, Clarence took over the management of Baker’s following his father’s stroke in 1939. Baker’s was located at the end of the bus line in a rural neighborhood, on Livernois at 8 mile, where cornfields were more common than houses. At that time he nor anyone knew that seven decades later it would claim to be the longest running jazz club anywhere in the world.
In the late thirties, Clarence had installed himself as entertainment director, and began booking solo pianist into Baker’s. Suddenly, there were lines outside the door. What began as a neighborhood spot serving steaks and chops, now, was a little jazz club.

Leave the keyboard and university and learn about Jazz in person. Maybe even dig up some old vinyl and listen to some ECM before Fusion spoiled Chick Corea – http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14563.(Al DiMeola is the anti-Christ)

And yes, I will tell my teacher what I think of it.

I am a big fan of Jazz and posting Henry Fords rantings without any context is your problem, not mine. I have spent many nights at Bakers Keyboard Lounge in Detroit enjoying local and national acts. I happened on to the ECM label and European Jazz ( Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and Ralph Towner), in the 1970′s while listening to WDET free formats.

Perhaps you could include this from the United Jewish Communities website before you call me an anti-Semite. Either you or your professor are the ones guilty of being like the Pretzel Man. Maybe your energies should be directed at your professor and university instead of me. Conflating Jazz with anti-Semitism ignores the rich history of blacks and Jews bringing this uniquie American music to the world. It was Europe and Germany which gave the world two wars and the Holocaust, look into your own backyard before you attack me. I am going to listen to Bela Fleck and old Weather Report, you can look for anti-Semitism under rocks in your own back yard.

The site has a good article about Eastern European Jews bringing Jazz to the American white masses.
Jazz greats: Artie Shaw(Abraham Arthur Arshawsky), Benny Goodman and Paul Whiteman
http://www.ujc.org/page.html?ArticleID=957
Jews and All That Jazz: Al Jolson, Florenz Ziegfeld, Fanny Brice, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Artie Shaw and more
by Mark Levy

In 1918, Ford’s closest aide and private secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, purchased an obscure weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. By 1920, Ford had become publicly antisemitic and in March of that year, began an anti-Jewish crusade in the pages of his newspaper.[8] The Independent ran for eight years, from 1920 until 1927, during which Liebold was editor. The newspaper published “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” which was discredited as a forgery during the Independent’s publishing run by The Times of London. The American Jewish Historical Society describes the ideas presented in the magazine as “anti-immigrant, anti-labor, anti-liquor, and anti-Semitic”. In February 1921, the New York World published an interview with Ford, in which he said “The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on”. During this period, Ford emerged as “a respected spokesman for right-wing extremism and religious prejudice,” reaching around 700,000 readers through his newspaper.[9]

Along with the Protocols, anti-Jewish articles published by The Dearborn Independent were also released in the early 1920s as a set of four bound volumes, cumulatively titled The International Jew, the World’s Foremost Problem. Vincent Curcio writes of these publications that “they were widely distributed and had great influence, particularly in Nazi Germany, where no less a personage than Adolf Hitler read and admired them. Hitler, fascinated with automobiles, hung Ford’s picture on the wall; Ford is the only American mentioned in Hitler’s book. Steven Watts writes that Hitler “revered” Ford, proclaiming that “I shall do my best to put his theories into practice in Germany,” and modeling the Volkswagen, the people’s car, on the model T.”[10]

Wiki – The International Jew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew

The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem is a four volume set of books originally published and distributed in the early 1920′s by Henry Ford, an American industrialist, automobile developer and manufacturer. It consisted of a collection of articles serialized in The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper owned by Ford. Many of the texts were inspired by antisemitic plagiarism of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[1]
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Vincent Curcio wrote that these publications “were widely distributed and had great influence, particularly in Nazi Germany, where no less a personage than Adolf Hitler read and admired them. Hitler based several sections of Mein Kampf on his writings: indeed, Ford is the only American mentioned in Hitler’s book. It can probably be said, as Lacey does, that no American contributed as much to the evils of Nazism as Henry Ford.”[3]

Does being a Ford employee or owner make one a Jazz hater and anti-Semite?

It took all of a couple minutes and a Google search to link this to Dearborn Michigan – Henry Ford and “The International Jew”. This is from our favorite capitalist and Nazi sympathiser Henry Ford.