The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle over Christianity in the Public Schools by Scott D. Seligman Discount ' and his conversation (I

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over the past seventy-five years or more

Unlike much of Yiddish literature that offers a sentimentalized view of the tight knit communities of early twentieth-century Jewish life

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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle over Christianity in the Public Schools by Scott D. Seligman Discount ' and his conversation (ITodays battles over Christianity in U. S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was an intramural struggle between Protestants and later arriving Catholics. But at Christmastime in 1905, when Frank Harding, the Presbyterian principal of a Brooklyn elementary school, urged his Jewish students to be more like Jesus, the Jewish community entered the fray in a big way. It was just the trigger Orthodox Jewish activist Albert Lucas