In the 1920s the auto magnate, Henry Ford, bought a small newspaper with one purpose in mind, to spread his hatred of the Jews.  He brought out the American edition…

“This is a book that should be in every library of American Judaica. It is a sobering tale of what one wealthy bigot could do, and how a fractured community…

“Henry Ford’s War on Jews digs deeply and yet subtly into the serious, basic tensions that surrounded Jewish identity and leadership in the United States of the 1920s. . .…

“Victoria Saker Woeste’s Henry Ford’s War on Jews offers an excellent account of the events that led to the Marshall-Ford alliance and how those events affected American libel law.”

“Thoroughly researched and footnoted, the book analyzes Sapiro v. Ford and its aftermath in the larger social context of combating hate speech. This ambitious scope is paired with lively writing…

“This volume, based upon primary sources that have for the most part never before been examined, taught me an enormous amount that is not in any previous work.  Woeste brilliantly…

“This will be the definitive work on Henry Ford and his confrontation by American Jews. She is balanced and critical in her approach, avoiding the preachiness typical of the writing…

“Woeste argues that the Ford libel/hate speech episode is a dramatic example of the extension of corporate and economic power into the social realm and the inability of law to…

“Woeste deliver[s] in-depth analyses rich with ethnographic and historical detail. . . .[She suggests] that the continued race-blind absolutist approach to the First Amendment in the United States will continue…

“Woeste’s book is . . . . a rich social history of a public controversy and a long-forgotten libel suit. Its strength is in delineating the contingencies involved in the…