if henry kissinger can knock in a nail or cannot knock in a nail. nobody would expect he could do that. it was a bit strange to think that just because somebody is a great industrialist you must be a world famous expert on everything. now there are very unusual moments in the whole ford affair. one of the most unusual was when henry ford in the midst of printing these articles sent a gift as he regularly did top detroit's famous reform rabbi, rabbi franklin, leo franklin well in the middle of a whole series of anti-semitic articles what do you think he did when he got a free car from henry ford?

he returned it. you must have the wrong person here. jews are all sorts of things. how can you offer me a gift? apparently henry ford was deeply surprised. i'm talking about the jews i'm not talking about you. and this, even though this is humorous to us. it does remind us of an important theme in the scholarship on anti-semitism which we talked about also early on. the mythical jew and the jew next door. to henry ford, rabbi franklin is the jew next door. oh, he's highly respected honorable, and important religiouskdz leader, i, you know, want to be on good terms with him. i live in detroit. important figure i'll send him a card. of course, from rabbi franklin's

point of view, if you're writing negative things about jews, then i side with them. but it's an interesting example how in the antise-semitic mind you can simultaneously sometimes, you know, oh he can't, my best friend is a jew. so here you have rabbi franklin, the jew next door, and then you have the mythical jew, i would like those books back please. there, the international jew -- thanks. you know that he's writing about here. and that's a moment that suggests to me that ford really did have this tension between the mythical jew and, and the jew next door.

i think i'm going to put off until next time. what i want to do next time, first i want to actually read with you and i'll send it around, one of the chapters so we get a sense of thousand works. how does anti-semitic writing work, why was this so much more successful than the protocols? and you'll instantly see because he seems to be explaining contemporary events. and then we'll talk about aaron sepiro who is the person who sues ford and there's actually a new book on that subject. and rather interesting, a rather interesting court case. any questions? comments? >> you've been watching a special presentation of our lectures in history series. we've got more every saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. join students in the classroom

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>> all right. great. hello everybody. today as you know we're going to take up the topic engineering, work and the person. and i put up on a slide here, the cover, one of the many covers of theodore's novel, sister carrie which we've been discussing this last week. and what we been considering is a kind of fictional assault right? on the victorian moral order. in this case and theodore's case, in the form of naturalist fiction. naturalist writing. the attempt to get close to urban reality and to record it in the form of a story about a female adventurer. she chose to set this story as you know in the booming bustling town of chicago. and to use chicago as a kind of character in the story. so look at the booms, the bus the individual tremendous vails, the fortunes of the characters

in his novel. and just to sort of summarize where we got last time. in the pages, i think we saw the workings of many things. not just a story, right? but a kind of commentary on early 20th century america. and especially urban industrial america. we saw the workings of a new economy, the novel itself as a kind of allegory for capitalism and consumer culture. that was constantly on the move in which styles, fashions identities characters, fall and rise. and importantly they fall and rise without rhyme or reason. all right. identities can be put on a costume and then shed. as characters move on to their new roles. this has something to do right, not just with carrie being an actress and being in her own story, but being in a story of amer