A documented expose of organized anti-semitism in the United States by Communist journalist John L Spivak. The material in this publication appeared as a series of articles in Communist Party’s The New Masses publication from October 2 to December 4, 1934.

Plotting America’s Pogroms: A Documented Expose of Organized Anti-Semitism in the United States by John Spivak. New Masses Publishing, New York. 1934.

Contents: The Organization of Anti-Semitism, “The Jews Must Be Destroyed,” Rich Jews Who Finance Anti-Semitism, McFadded Jew-Baiter and Crook, Anti-Semitic Duet: Easley and Viereck, Who Paid Viola Ilma’s Way to Nazi Germany?, “Hate the Jew” Campaign in Colleges, Selling Anti-Semitism to the Farmers, What to Do About It. 95 pages with facsimiles of original documents.

The New Masses was the continuation of Workers Monthly which began publishing in 1924 as a merger of the ‘Liberator’, the Trade Union Educational League magazine ‘Labor Herald’, and Friends of Soviet Russia’s monthly ‘Soviet Russia Pictorial’ as an explicitly Communist Party publication, but drawing in a wide range of contributors and sympathizers. In 1927 Workers Monthly ceased and The New Masses began. A major left cultural magazine of the late 1920s and early 1940s, the early editors of The New Masses included Hugo Gellert, John F. Sloan, Max Eastman, Mike Gold, and Joseph Freeman. Writers included William Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Upton Sinclair, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Day, John Breecher, Langston Hughes, Eugene O’Neill, Rex Stout and Ernest Hemingway. Artists included Hugo Gellert, Stuart Davis, Boardman Robinson, Wanda Gag, William Gropper and Otto Soglow. Over time, the New Masses became narrower politically and the articles more commentary than comment. However, particularly in it first years, New Masses was the epitome of the era’s finest revolutionary cultural and artistic traditions.

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