A wild accusation about Jews related to Easter — but not the one you think.
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JTA’s Capital Comment columnist wrote in 1934:
The annual Easter egg-rolling event on the White House lawn almost proved to be a singular success this year if it were not for one thing. There was a shortage of Easter baskets!
And there is good reason for that, too. In previous years, most of the baskets carried by the children on Easter Monday came from Germany. This year, things were different. The effective embargo on German-made goods by the Jewish people in this country, brought about a sharp falling off of imports of German baskets. And so when the kids began to get ready for the Easter Monday event, there was a shortage of baskets. Most of the dealers in these baskets had stopped buying from Germany and American made baskets had to be substituted.
[NB: Pope John Paul II cleared Jews of that other accusation.]
Photo: Easter eggs, Karakal (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
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