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The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem is a four volume set of books originally published and distributed in the early 1920's by Henry Ford, an American industrialist, automobile developer and manufacturer. It consisted of a collection of articles serialized in The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper owned by Ford. Many of the texts were inspired by antisemitic plagiarism of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.^[1]

Contents 1 Content 2 Influence on Hitler 3 Libel suit, 1927 4 Legacy 4.1 The Patriotic Publishing Co. 4.2 G. F. Green and the Christian Nationalist Crusade 5 Bibliography 5.1 Primary sources 5.2 Secondary sources 6 References 7 External link

After publication in the periodical, the articles were compiled into a four volume set as follows: ^[2]

• Volume 1: The International Jew
• Volume 2: Jewish Activities in the United States
• Volume 3: Jewish Influence in American Life
• Volume 4: Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States

Vincent Curcio wrote that these publications "were widely distributed and had great influence, particularly in Nazi Germany, where no less a personage than Adolf Hitler read and admired them. Hitler based several sections of Mein Kampf on his writings: indeed, Ford is the only American mentioned in Hitler's book. It can probably be said, as Lacey does, that no American contributed as much to the evils of Nazism as Henry Ford."^[3]

A libel lawsuit brought by San Francisco lawyer and Jewish farm cooperative organizer Aaron Sapiro in response to antisemitic remarks led Ford to close the Independent in December 1927. News reports at the time quoted him as being shocked by the content and having been unaware of its nature. During the trial, the editor of Ford's "Own Page", William Cameron, 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 or sent them to Ford for his approval.^[4] Investigative journalist Max Wallace noted that "whatever credibility this absurd claim may have had was soon undermined when James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.^[5] According to 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".^[6]

In 1934, The Patriotic Publishing Co., an unincorporated entity that operated out of a post office box ^[8] "Issued" and "Compiled and edited" the The Protocols as an expanded 300-page tome. The expansion from less than 100 pages to 300 pages was made possible by lifting substantial sections from The Dearborn Independent. Most of the later imprints of the Protocols are derived from this 1934 edition.

Distribution of The International Jew was halted in 1942^{[citation needed]}, but extremist groups often recycle the material; it still appears on anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi websites.

In June of 1949 there appeared a 174 page one volume abridgment of the text, entitled The International Jew, subtitled "The World's Foremost Problem", and edited by G. F. Green. It was published by G. F. Green, editor of The Independent Nationalist with the address at 56 Gloucester Road, New Barnet, Herts, England.

The printer was H.L. Castle, Ltd., Victoria Printing Works; Watford, Herts, England. This edition sold for 9/- (British currency).

The book also sold in the United States. It was distributed by the Christian Nationalist Crusade with a sticker mounted on the front endpaper, recto side, bearing the following text:

                          Extra Copies Of This Book
                           The International Jew
                        May Be Had At $2.00 per Copy
                           Place Your Order With
                         CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST
                                CRUSADE
                       P.O. Box D-4  St. Louis 1, Mo.

This is the source of the version of the International Jew which currently circulates as an abridgment bearing the name of G. F. Green.

• Call # *DA+ (Dearborn independent) Library has: Year 19, no.11-52-year 28, no.11 (Jan. 11-Dec. 31, 1927)

Title Dearborn independent (Dearborn, Mich. : 1901).

Dearborn independent.

Imprint Dearborn, Mich., Suburban Pub. Co.,

URL for this record

LOCATION CALL # STATUS

Humanities- General Research- Rm315 *DA+ (Dearborn independent) Library has: Year 19, no.11-52-year 28, no.11 (Jan. 11-Dec. 31, 1927)

Division Humanities- General Research- Rm315

Descript 28 v. ill. 40-51 cm.

Frequency Weekly

Note Began in 1901? Ceased with v.28, 1927; Cf. Ayer.

"The Ford international weekly" appears with title in masthead, .

Includes editorial page by Henry Ford.

Description based on: Vol. 7, no. 27 (Jan 31, 1908).

Published as a weekly periodical -.

Numbering irregular.

Available on microfilm from the Auburn University Libraries.

Subject Dearborn (Mich.) -- Newspapers.

Wayne County (Mich.) -- Newspapers.

United States Michigan Wayne Dearborn.

Add'l name Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.

NYPL CATNYP: [1]

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• LC Control No.: 21005671

Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)

Uniform Title: The Dearborn independent. [from old catalog]

Main Title: The international Jew, the world’s foremost problem, being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in The Dearborn independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920.

Published/Created: [Dearborn, Mich., The Dearborn publishing, co.] 1920.

Description: 1 p.l., [5]-235 p. 19cm.

Subjects: Protocols of the wise men of Zion. Jews.

LC Classification: DS145.D5 A3

CALL NUMBER: DS145.D5 A3

URL: [2]

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• LC Control No.: 53049221

Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)

Uniform Title: The Dearborn independent. [from old catalog]

The International Jew. German. [from old catalog]

Main Title: Der internationale Jude.

Published/Created: Leipzig, Hammer-Verlag [192- ]

Description: 2 v. 22 cm.

Subjects: Jews--United States. [from old catalog]

LC Classification: DS145.D5 A4 1920z

CALL NUMBER: DS145.D5 A4 1920z

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• LC Control No.: 76518610

Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)

Personal Name: Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.

Uniform Title: International Jew. Russian.

Main Title: Mezhdunarodnoe evreĭstvo / Genri Ford ; perevod s angliīskago.

Published/Created: [s.l. : s.n.], 192-]

Related Titles: Dearborn Independent.

Description: 237 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Translation of a collection of unsigned articles originally appearing in the Dearborn independent May 22-Oct. 2, 1920.

Subjects: Jews--United States.

LC Classification: DS141 .D45 1920z

Language Code: rus eng

Other System No.: (OCoLC)32521103

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• Henry Ford; Egyptian Translator: ‘Ali al-Gawhari

The International Jew (Arabic)

(Cairo: Dar al-Fadhilah, 2001)

• Ford R. Bryan, Henry's Lieutenants (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993) ISBN 0-8143-2428-2 (paper)
• Albert Lee, Henry Ford and the Jews (New York: Stein and Day, 1980) ISBN 0-8128-2701-5
• Max Wallace, The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003) ISBN 0-312-29022-5

• The New York Public Library, Catalog Record [3]