Item #10054 [Purported letter from Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow to Mr. William Zukerman likely concocted by an anti-Semite]

[Purported letter from Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow to Mr. William Zukerman likely concocted by an anti-Semite]

n.p. n.p., [195-?]. A letter purportedly written by Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow of Temple B’nai Moshe in Brighton, MA, to William Zukerman, an anti-Zionist Jew who published the Jewish Newsletter, which was affiliated with the American Council of Judaism. Shubow describes the publication as a “self-hating gutter rag, where a contemptible cad tries to make it appear that Jews are nothing and nobodies and will soon disappear anyhow.” He goes on to vilify Zukerman and curses him thusly: “God will surely strike you down and send upon you all the makkos and plagues which were prepared for a base, satanic creature like yourself. A thousand curses upon you!

An unsigned reply characterizes Shubow’s letter as a “‘brotherly-love’ letter” that exhibits “all the pent-up hatred of the mass of Jewry toward the goyim [now] heaped upon their own flesh-and-blood who show signs of breaking away from the pirate band.”

The letter is similar in style, language and format to the spurious Pealer/Sammons letter and appears to have been concocted by the same individual or group providing an unexplored research opportunity for those studying the anti-Semitic fringe.

A 14” x 8 ½” sheet mimeographed from typescript. Folded once, else a Fine copy. Not found by us in OCLC, not in Singerman. Item #10054

Price: $150.00

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