Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Women's History
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,2 (1990) 66-99
Keywords:
Schwimmer, Rosika
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Surveys the life and activities of Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948), a women's rights and peace activist, and a Hungarian Jew, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1914. Although she was attacked for her feminist and liberal views, antisemitism was the force behind the charges of disloyalty and radicalism in the reactionary atmosphere of America in the 1920s. Discusses the role Schwimmer played in Henry Ford's attempt to end World War I with the Peace Ship expedition, and subsequent accusations in the press - Jewish as well as non-Jewish - that she aroused Henry Ford's antisemitism, which culminated in his antisemitic crusade in the "Dearborn Independent." Suggests that sexist, xenophobic, and antisemitic biases were the reasons behind the rejection in 1929 by the U.S. Supreme Court of her application for citizenship. Schwimmer continued to devote her life to the realization of pacifist and feminist goals, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948.
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