Robert Edward Edmondson antisemitic broadsides

Identifier
irn62095
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.514.1
Dates
1 Jan 1934 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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Biographical History

Anti-Semitic pamphleteer, born in Dayton, Ohio, who initially worked as a journalist for the Cincinnati Post and the New York Herald. Edmondson later founded his own news service, the Edmondson Economic Service, based in New York, which he increasingly used to disseminate his anti-Jewish and pro-Nazi views during the 1930s. [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Edward_Edmondson; accessed August 2013].

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund

Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.

Purchase. Kedem Auction House, Ltd., 2013.

Scope and Content

Six broadsides, issued by the Edmondson Economic Service, under the following titles and dates: "'Invisible Government:' The Hidden Autocratic Minority Menace to American Democracy" (18 May 1934); "Prof. Felix Frankfurter" (4 July 1934); "Are You a Communist, Mr. Dickstein?" (15 December 1934); "Justice Brandeis Unfit?" (15 March 1935); "Jews Off Gold?" (10 August 1937); "The Jewish Hymn Onward Christian Soldiers--To Make the World Safe for Communistic Jewry!" (10 January 1939).

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