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Gold Medal for the 2024 Reader Views Literary Awards in History
Winner of the 2024 Reader Views Literary Awards in Regional: North-East
Finalist for the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book Fest
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.
To the Yiddish-language daily Forverts (Forward), 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 The Chief Rabbi's Funeral is the first book-length account of this event and its aftermath.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Chronology
Dramatis Personae
Prologue
Chapter I: "Unite the Hearts of Our Brethren"
Chapter II: "An Old Fogy in Their Eyes"
Chapter III: "Protect Our Holy Faith"
Chapter IV: "A Flower Transplanted to Uncongenial Soil"
Chapter V: "One Solid Gang of Criminals"
Chapter VI: "Disgusted With the Corrupt Methods of the Police"
Chapter VII: "So Impressive a Funeral"
Chapter VIII: "Get Out, You Sheenies! We'll Soak You!"
Chapter IX: "Club the Life Out of Them"
Chapter X: "Commissioner Partridge is a Sleepy Old Bubbie"
Chapter XI: "There Never Was Such an Outrage on Our Race"
Chapter XII: "Action is Called for! Examples Should be Made!"
Chapter XIII: "Cross is Cross With the Jews"
Chapter XIV: "Driving Them Like a Lot of Hogs"
Chapter XV: "The Well-Considered Opinion of a Committee of Citizens"
Chapter XVI: "The Trouble Was All Over When We Got There"
Chapter XVII: "The Attack Was Deliberately Planned"
Chapter XVIII: "Because We are Hebrews and the Police are Irishmen"
Chapter XIX: "A Direct Snub to the Commissioner"
Chapter XX: "These People are Ignorant"
Chapter XXI: "I Don't Need This Job"
Chapter XXII: "I Withdraw the Statements Challenged"
Further Reading
Glossary
Notes
Index
