A quotation published in Father Charles E. Coughlin’s organ, Social Justice, purporting to have been made in 1840 by Moses Montefiore and urging Jewish domination of the press, has been shown by the American Jewish Congress to be identical with a quotation published in a Nazi encyclopedia which has been traced back to an old forgery.
The quotation appeared in the March 6 issue of Social Justice. It was shown that the same paragraph appeared in “Segilla Veri,” an anti-Semitic encyclopedia published by Ulrich Fleischauer, anti-Jewish propagandist of Erfurt, Germany. The Congress further showed that (1) Montefiore never was in Krakow, where he was alleged to have made the statement, (2) the quotation had been admitted by a German anti-Semitic newspaper to be a forgery, (3) the same statement was published in an anti-Semitic book in 1875, but not attributed to Montefiore, (4) Simon Wolf, cited by Social Justice as authority for the quotation, never wrote on Montefiore, the late Lucien Wolf having been his biographer.
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