It’s June 15th. This day in 1877, a prominent Jewish businessman by the name of Joseph Seligman is turned away from staying at the Grand Union Hotel, with the hotel claiming a new policy “no Israelites shall be permitted in the future to stop at this hotel.”
Jody, Niki and Kellie are joined by Zev Eleff, president of Gratz College in Pennsylvania, to discuss what came to be known as the Seligman Affair, perhaps the most high-profile case of antisemitism in the United States up to that point. It revealed a lot about shifting class, race, and religious lines in post-Civil-War America.
Zev wrote an article for Sources, from the Shalom Hartman Institute, check it out here: https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/tag/Zev+Eleff
Sign up for our newsletter! We’ll be sending out links to all the stuff we recommended later this week.
Find out more at thisdaypod.com
This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.
If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com
Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod
Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia
Clinton Finds Life On Mars (1996)
The Roots of "Roots" (1976) [[Archive Episode]]
Clean Up After Your Dog! (1978)
The Subway Vigilante (1984) w/ Leon Neyfakh
The Irish-American Gun-Runners (1973) w/ Nate Lavey [[Archive Episode]]
Thunderation! The Speaker Demands Bean Soup (1904)
The Plot To Blow Up Hell Gate Bridge (1942) w/ Rebecca Seidel
The Beer Summit (2009) [[Archive Episode]]
The Szilard Anti-Nuke Petition (1945)
The Ft Ontario Holocaust Refugees (1944) w/ Sarah Botstein
The Lost Robert E. Lee Oath Theory (1975) w/ John Reeves [[Archive Episode]]
Hubert Humphrey Takes Center Stage (1948) w/ Samuel G Freedman
Skylab Crashes Back To Earth (1979)
Nativists vs Catholics in Philadelphia (1844) [[Archive Episode]]
L'Enfant Maps Out DC (1791) w/ Scott W Berg
Napalming Harvard's Soccer Field (1942)
The Great American Roadtrip (1956) w/ Eddie Alterman [[Archive Episode]]
The Abortion Pill Protest (1992) w/ TJ Raphael
Readmitting Rebel States (1868)
Flag Burning Is Free Speech (1989) w/ Michael Liroff
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Criminal
Ear Hustle
Song Exploder
The Truth
the memory palace