The International Jew is a four-volume set of antisemitic booklets or pamphlets originally published and distributed in the early 1920s by the Dearborn Publishing Company, an outlet owned by Henry Ford, the American industrialist and automobile manufacturer.

The booklets were a collection of articles originally serialized in Ford's Dearborn Independent newspaper, beginning with The International Jew: The World's Problem, published on May 22, 1920.

Background 
At the beginning of 1920, Ford's personal newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, was languishing in subscriptions and losing money. Ford and his personal secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, began to discuss a series of articles on the Jewish question. While it was Liebold who claimed to have come up with the title The International Jew, he turned to "the walking dictionary" William J. Cameron for most of the writing. For 91 issues, the weekly paper announced a variety of stories featuring the supposed evilness of Jewish influence. 

Editor E. G. Pipp left the Independent in April 1920 in disgust with the planned antisemitic articles, which began in May; he was replaced by Cameron. While Ford did not personally write the articles, he expressed his opinions verbally to Cameron and Liebold. Cameron had the main responsibility for expanding these opinions into article form. Liebold was responsible for collecting more material to support the articles.

The most popular and aggressive stories were then chosen to be reprinted into four volumes called The International Jew. The first volume was published in November 1920 as an anthology of articles that had been published in the Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920. The original print run of the first edition was estimated to be between 200,000 and 500,000 copies. Three additional volumes were published over the next 18 months.

Liebold never copyrighted The International Jew and therefore had no control over anyone else publishing it themselves. The book was ultimately translated into 16 languages, including six editions in Germany between 1920 and 1922, and has remained in the public domain.

Libel suit 

Following the publishing of an article in the Independent that alleged Jewish control of New York banks that were holding Texas cotton farmers hostage financially, San Francisco lawyer and Jewish farm cooperative organizer Aaron Sapiro sued Ford and Dearborn Publishing for libel in a $1 million lawsuit.

During the trial, William J. Cameron, the editor of Ford's "Own Page", testified that Ford had nothing to do with the editorials even though they were under his byline. Cameron testified at the libel trial that he never discussed the content of the pages nor sent them to Ford for his approval. Investigative journalist Max Wallace doubted the veracity of this claim and wrote that James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.

According to political scientist Michael Barkun, "That Cameron would have continued to publish such controversial material without Ford's explicit instructions seemed unthinkable to those who knew both men. Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, a Ford family intimate, remarked that 'I don't think Mr. Cameron ever wrote anything for publication without Mr. Ford's approval.

Ultimately, the libel suit led Ford to issue a retraction and public apology in which he indicated having been unaware of the nature of the remarks, both those published in the Independent, and the subsequent pamphlets, and was "shocked" by the content. 

Soon after the trial, Ford closed the Independent on December 31, 1927.

Influence on Nazi anti-Semitism

Ford's International Jew was translated into German in 1922 and cited as an influence by Baldur von Schirach, one of the Nazi leaders, who stated "I read it and became anti-Semitic. In those days this book made such a deep impression on my friends and myself because we saw in Henry Ford the representative of success, also the exponent of a progressive social policy. In the poverty-stricken and wretched Germany of the time, youth looked toward America, and apart from the great benefactor, Herbert Hoover, it was Henry Ford who to us represented America."

Praising American leadership in eugenics in his book , Adolf Hitler considered Ford an inspiration, and noted this admiration in his book, calling him "a single great man". Hitler was also known to keep copies of The International Jew, as well as a large portrait of Ford in his Munich office.

Content 
After publication in the Independent, the articles were compiled as chapters into a four volume set as follows:

Volume 1: The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem (1920)

 The Jew in Character and Business
 Germany's Reaction Against the Jew
 Jewish History in the United States
 The Jewish Question—Fact or Fancy?
 Anti-Semitism—Will It Appear in the U.S.?
 Jewish Question Breaks Into the Magazines
 Arthur Brisbane Leaps to the Help of Jewry
 Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
 The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
 An Introduction to the "Jewish Protocols"
 "Jewish" Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
 "Jewish Protocols" Claim Partial Fulfillment
 "Jewish" Plan to Split Society by "Ideas"
 Did the Jews Foresee the World War?
 Is the Jewish "Kahal" the Modern "Soviet"?
 How the "Jewish Question" Touches the Farm
 Does Jewish Power Control the World Press?
 Does This Explain Jewish Political Power?
 The All-Jewish Mark on "Red Russia"
 Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism

Volume 2: Jewish Activities in the United States (1921)

 How Jews in the U.S. Conceal Their Strength
 Jewish Testimony on "Are Jews a Nation?"
 Jew Versus Non-Jew in New York Finance
 The High and Low of Jewish Money Power
 "Disraeli of America"—A Jew of Super-Power
 The Scope of Jewish Dictatorship in the U.S.
 Jewish Copper Kings Reap Rich War-Profits
 Jewish Control of the American Theater
 The Rise of the First Jewish Theatrical Trust
 How Jews Capitalized a Protest Against Jews
 The Jewish Aspect of the "Movie" Problem
 Jewish Supremacy in Motion Picture World
 Rule of the Jewish Kehillah Grips New York
 The Jewish Demand for "Rights" in America
 "Jewish Rights" Clash With American Rights
 "Jewish Rights" to Put Studies Out of Schools
 Disraeli—British Premier, Portrays the Jews
 Taft Once Tried to Resist Jews—and Failed
 When Editors Were Independent of the Jews
 Why the Jews Dislike the Morgenthau Report
 Jews Use the Peace Conference to Bind Poland
 The Present Status of the Jewish Question

Volume 3: Jewish Influence in American Life (1921)

 The Jews and the "Religious Persecution" Cry
 Are the Jews Victims or Persecutors?
 Jewish Gamblers Corrupt American Baseball
 Jewish Degradation of American Baseball
 Jewish Jazz Becomes Our National Music
 How the Jewish Song Trust Makes You Sing
 Jewish Hot-Beds of Bolshevism in the U.S.
 Jew Trades Link With World Revolutionaries
 Will Jewish Zionism Bring Armageddon?
 How the Jews Use Power—By an Eyewitness
 How Jews Ruled and Ruined Tammany Hall
 Jew Wires Direct Tammany's Gentile Puppets
 B'nai B'rith Leader Discusses the Jews
 Dr. Levy, a Jew, Admits His People's Error
 Jewish Idea in American Monetary Affairs
 Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve Plan
 Jewish Idea of Central Bank for America
 How Jewish International Finance Functions
 Jewish Power and America's Money Famine

Volume 4: Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States (1922)

 How Jews Gained American Liquor Control
 Gigantic Jewish Liquor Trust and Its Career
 The Jewish Element in Bootlegging Evil
 Angles of Jewish Influence in American Life
 The Jews' Complaint Against "Americanism"
 The Jewish Associates of Benedict Arnold
 Benedict Arnold and Jewish Aid in Shady Deal
 Arnold and His Jewish Aids at West Point
 The Gentle Art of Changing Jewish Names
 Jewish "Kol Nidre" and "Eli, Eli" Explained
 Jews as New York Magistrates See Them
 Jews Are Silent, the National Voice Is Heard
 What Jews Attempted When they Had Power
 The Jewish Question in Current Testimony
 America's Jewish Enigma—Louis Marshall
 The Economic Plans of International Jews
 A Jew Sees His People As Others See Them
 Candid Address to Jews on the Jewish Problem
 An Address to "Gentiles" on the Jewish Problem

Abridged version in 1949 

In June 1949, a 174-page, one-volume abridgement of the text appeared, titled The International Jew, subtitled "The World's Foremost Problem", edited by George F. Green, who was editor of the Independent Nationalist, a British fascist publication. The book was sold in the United States by the Christian Nationalist Crusade.

See also 
 Antisemitism in the United States
 New World Order (conspiracy theory)
 Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory
 The Eternal Jew (book)
The International Jew, full text on Wikisource

References

Secondary sources 
 Ford R. Bryan, Henry's Lieutenants (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993)  (paper)

External links

Record - New York Public Library
Statement by Henry Ford - pamphlet issued by American Jewish Committee

Antisemitic publications
1920 non-fiction books
1921 non-fiction books
1922 non-fiction books
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Antisemitism in the United States
Henry Ford
《국제유대인》(The International Jew)은 1920년대 초 미국의 자동차 재벌 헨리 포드에 의해 출판 및 배포된 4권의 반유대주의 책자들이다.

1920년 봄부터 포드는 언론사업도 시작하여 주간지 디어본 인디펜던트를 창간했다. 이 지면을 통해 포드는 통권 91호에 걸쳐 유대인의 사악함에 대한 온갖 이야기를 퍼뜨렸다. 그리고 그 중에서 가장 자극적인 것들만 모아 네 권짜리 책자로 재간행한 것이 소위 《국제유대인》이다.

포드의 《국제유대인》은 1922년 독일어로 번역되었다. 국가사회주의 독일 노동자당(나치당) 당료 중 하나인 발두어 폰 시라흐는 이 책이 나치들에게 큰 영향을 주었고, 자신은 《국제유대인》을 읽고 반유대주의에 눈떴다고 증언했다. 포드는 아돌프 히틀러의 《나의 투쟁》에 한 줄이나마 언급되는 유일한 미국인이기도 하다. 다만 제2판부터는 포드를 언급한 내용이 삭제되었다. 나치의 유대인 학살 정책의 정식 명칭은 “"유대인 문제"에 대한 최종해결책”이었다.

목차 

 제1권 세계의 가장 심각한 문제 국제유대인(The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem; 1920년)
 유대인의 성격과 사업
 독일의 유대인에 대한 대응
 미국 유대인의 역사
 유대인 문제—사실인가 상상인가?
 반유대주의—미국에서 나타날 것인가?
 잡지들에 숨어들어온 유대인 문제
 유대인들의 도움으로 출세한 아서 브리스베인
 확고한 유대인 세계계획은 존재하는가?
 유대 제국주의의 역사적 근거
 "유대 의정서" 개론
 비유대인의 천성에 관한 "유대적" 추정
 부분적으로 완수된 "유대 의정서"
 "이념"으로 사회를 분열시키려는 "유대적" 계획
 유대인들은 세계대전을 예견했는가?
 유대 "카할"이 오늘날에는 "소비에트"인가?
 "유대인 문제"가 농장을 건드리는 방식
 유대 권력이 세계 언론을 통제하는가?
 이것이 유대인의 정치권력을 설명하는가?
 모든 유대인이 "붉은 러시아"에 주목하다
 유대인들이 볼셰비즘 선호를 고백

 제2권 미국의 유대인들의 활동(Jewish Activities in the United States; 1921)
 미국의 유대인들이 자기 힘을 숨기는 방법
 "유대인이 국민집단인가?"에 관한 유대인의 증언
 뉴욕 재무의 유대인과 비유대인의 대결
 유대 금권의 고저
 "미국의 디즈레일리"—초권력을 가진 유대인
 미국의 유대인 독재 들여다보기
 유대인 구리 부자가 전쟁 특수를 누리다
 유대인들의 미국 극장 통제
 제1차 유대인 극장 트러스트의 부상
 유대인들이 유대인 반대 시위를 이용하는 법
 "영화" 문제의 유대적 측면
 활동사진 세계의 유대인 우월주의
 유대인 케힐라의 규율이 뉴욕을 장악하다
 미국에서 "권리"를 요구하는 유대인들
 "유대인 권리"는 미국인의 권리와 충돌한다
 학문을 학교에서 내쫓는 "유대인 권리"
 영국 수상 디즈레일리의 유대인 표상
 태프트는 한때 유대인에 저항했다―그리고 실패했다
 신문 주필들이 유대인으로부터 독립적이라면
 유대인들이 모겐소 보고서를 싫어하는 이유
 유대인들은 평화회담을 이용해 폴란드를 옭아맸다

 제3권 미국의 생활에 미치는 유대인의 영향력(Jewish Influence in American Life; 1921년)
 유대인과 "종교적 박해" Cry
 유대인들은 피해자인가 가해자인가?
 유대인 도박사들이 미국 야구를 오염시킨다
 미국 야구의 유대적 열화
 유대인의 재즈가 우리 국민음악이 될 판
 유대 가요 트러스트가 당신의 노래를 지배하는 법
 미국에 볼셰비즘의 씨를 뿌리는 유대인
 유대 무역과 세계혁명분자들의 관계
 유대 시온주의는 아마겟돈을 불러올 것인가?
 유대인이 권력을 사용하는 법—실제 목격담
 유대인들은 어떻게 태머니 홀을 지배하고 망쳤는가
 태머니의 비유대인 망석중들을 조종하는 유대인의 끈
 브나이 브리트 지도자가 유대인에 대해 논하다
 본인도 유대인인 리바이 박사가 자기네 족속의 오류를 인정
 미국 통화문제에 있어 유대적 이념
 유대인들의 이념이 연방준비계획을 만들었다
 유대인들의 미국 중앙은행 이념
 국제 유대자본이 기능하는 방법
 유대인의 권력과 미국의 돈 고갈

 제4권 미국에 미치는 유대 권력의 양상(Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States; 1922년)
 유대인들은 어떻게 미국의 음주 통제권을 얻었나
 거대한 유대 주류 트러스트와 그 내력
 사악한 주류밀매의 유대적 요소
 미국의 생활에 미치는 유대 영향력의 다각도
 "미국주의"에 반대하는 유대인들의 불평불만
 유대인과 베네딕트 아놀드의 관련성
 베네딕트 아놀드와 그림자에서 거래한 유대인의 도움
 웨스트포인트의 아놀드와 유대인의 도움
 유대식 이름을 개명하는 신사적 방법
 유대인의 "콜 니드레"와 "엘리 엘리" 해석
 뉴욕 치안판사가 보는 유대인들
 유대인들은 조용하고, 국민의 목소리는 들린다
 유대인들에게 권력이 주어지면 시도할 것
 현재의 증거로 미루어 본 유대인 문제
 미국의 유대인 수수께끼—루이스 마셜
 국제유대인의 경제계획
 유대인도 다른 민족들이 유대인을 바라보듯 유대인을 바라본다
 유대인 문제에 관하여 유대인들에게 보내는 솔직한 성명
 유대인 문제에 관하여 "비유대인"들에게 보내는 성명

각주 

미국의 반유대주의
반유대주의 출판물
시온 장로 의정서