Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

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http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33740

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[0103] American Jewish Committee Anti-Semitic and Extremist Collection

Location: Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Human Relations Library, American Jewish Committee, 165 E. 56th St, New York, NY 10022

Description: Contains files on John Crommelin, Rev. Carl McIntire, and J. B. Stoner.

References:

Clive Webb, "Freedom for all? Blacks, Jews, and the political censorship of white racists in the civil rights era," American Jewish History, 94.4 (Dec. 2008), pp. 267-97, https://www.muse.jhu.edu/login?­auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_jewish_history/v094/94.4.webb.html; Clive Webb, Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2011); Markku Ruotsila, "Carl McIntire and the Fundamentalist Origins of the Christian Right," Church History, Vol. 81, No. 2 (June 2012), pp. 378-407.

[0104] AJC General Correspondence Files, 1906-46 (bulk 1933-41)

Location: Special Collections, American Jewish Committee Library, 165 E. 56th St, New York, NY 10022

Description: The General Correspondence collection contains correspondence, including letters, memoranda, articles, reports, minutes, and abstracts that document the activities of the American Jewish Committee from 1906 through 1946. Series II: Subject Files, 1906-32, contains files on the Berne Trial, Boris Brasol, The Britons 1921-1930, Communism and Jews, Henry Ford, Industrial Defense Association 1931-32, Ku Klux Klan, Patriotic American Patriot 1922-23, W. D. Pelley 1925, Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion, and Gen. Tcherep-Spiridovich 1923.

Reference:

For more on the archival sources for the Berne trial, see Michael Hagemeister, "Russian Émigrés in the Bern Trial of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' (1933-1935)," Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks, 5, 2009, pp. 375-391, http://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/fileadmin/histsem/user_upload/redaktion/PersonenDateien/Hage­meister/MH-Russian_Emigres.pdf.

Finding aid:

http://www.ajc.org/site/c.9hJJLVMDKdKWE/b.6694165/k.83F/Special_Collections.htm

[0105] Records of the American Jewish Committee Executive Offices (EXO-29), Morris Waldman Files, 1905-1963 (bulk 1930-1945), RG 347.1.29

Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011-6301

Description: Morris Waldman was the Secretary of the American Jewish Committee, 1928-1943, and its Executive Vice President, 1943-1944. The Morris Waldman Files relate to all of Waldman's activities as acting executive secretary and vice-president of the AJC. Among the documents are correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, statements, reports, pamphlets, publications, press clippings. Contains files on America First Committee, Anti-Semitism, Boris Brasol, Communism, Communism and Jews, Constitutional Educational League (anti-union and anti-New Deal) and its president, Joseph P. Kamp, as connected to known anti-Semites, Father Charles E. Coughlin, Council Against Nazi Propaganda and its publication, The Hour, Martin Dies, Ralph Easley and his National Civic Federation, Robert Edward Edmondson, Henry Ford, foreign affairs, Foreign Policy Association, Benjamin Franklin forgery, Group libel, Hate and Hate Merchants, Hate Literature (including correspondence on possible legal action against Pelley and his Silver Shirts), Isolationism, Knights of the White Camellia and George Deatherage, Charles A. Lindbergh, Louis T. McFadden, Militant Christian Patriots and L. Fry, Nazism - "Mein Kampf," Nazi Propaganda (on pro-Nazi German press in the US, on propaganda activities of Pelley and Silver Shirts, on ABC Legion, on anti-Nazi German-American League for Culture), Nazi Propaganda- United States, Nazism, Senator Gerald Nye, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Steuben Society, James True, United Nations - San Francisco Conference (Dumbarton Oaks), United States Flag Association, United States Government - Congressional Investigations - Dies, Senator Burton Wheeler, and Gerald B. Winrod. Also contains correspondence between Harry Schneiderman and Fortune's editor Archibald MacLeish on the preparation of "Jews in America," Fortune 13.2 (February 1936).

Reference:

Guide to the YIVO Archives, edited by Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web (Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1998).

Websites with information:

http://www.cjh.org/p/93

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33740

Finding aids:

http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org/archive/?p=collections/findingaid&id=34307

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1655280

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33845

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[0106] American Jewish Committee: Information & Research Service (IRS), 1930s-1940s, RG 347.8

Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011-6301

Description: The collection includes press clippings on Jewish affairs, relating mainly to anti-Semitism in North America, England, and Europe. There are materials on Father Charles E. Coughlin; Henry Ford; Amin Al Husayni [Haj Amin el Husseini, former mufti of Jerusalem]; Oswald Mosley; Julius Streicher; the anti-Nazi boycott; and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Reference:

Guide to the YIVO Archives, edited by Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web (Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1998).

Finding aid:

http://www.yivoarchives.org/?p=collections/controlcard&id=33737

[0107] American Jewish Committee Records, 1917-1987 (bulk 1933-1984), MS-780

Location: American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

Description: Consists of American Jewish Committee (AJC) records from 1917-1987. Series E. Civil Rights and Social Action Department. 1941-1976. Subseries 1. Director's Office. 1941-1968. Section ii. Subject Files. 1941-1968, contains subject files on American Mercury, American Nazi Party, Anti-Semitism, Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr., John Beaty, Christian Youth Corps, Common Sense, Federation of American Citizens, Group Research, Inc. (Wesley McCune), House Un-American Activities Committee, Ku Klux Klan, Let Freedom Ring, James Madole, Jr., Minutemen, Sir Oswald Mosley, National Renaissance Party, National States Rights Party, Neo-Fascists and hate groups, Radical right and extremism, Radical right and extremism. Greenwich conference. 1962-1965 [the Conference on Preserving the Democratic Process, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and held in Greenwich, Connecticut, January 25-27, 1962], Radical right and extremism. Greenwich conference. Continuation Committee. 1962-1965, George Lincoln Rockwell, Gerald L.K Smith, James Venable, White Citizens Council, and Major General Charles A. Willoughby. Series G. Information and Research Services. 1947-1987. Subseries 1. September 1978 Accrual. 1947-1975. Section i. Alphabetical Files. 1947-1975, contains subject files on Incident at Massena: The Blood Libel in America, by Saul S. Friedman (1978); Jewish Defense League; and George Lincoln Rockwell. Section iii. Subject Files. 1947-1975, contains subject files on Abortion; Antisemitism; Church-State. Bible reading; Church-State. Federal aid to parochial schools; Church-State. Prayer in public schools; Codewords; Communism; Communism and Jews; Extremism; Radicals or Conservatives? The Contemporary American Right, by James McEvoy, III (1970); Radical right; Fluoridation; Fundamentalism and antisemitism; Integration; Race relations; and Intermarriage.

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