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Amost twenty years ago I received a letter from Thomas A. Edison, which is of peculiar interest now. It was written in response to my inquiry regarding an article in which Edison had expressed his views on the role of the Jews in Germany during the first months of the World War. The Edison letter, […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315