The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools by Seligman, Scott D.
The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools by Seligman, Scott D.

The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools

Today's battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was...
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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools by Seligman, Scott D.

The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools

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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools by Seligman, Scott D.

The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools

$52.20
Author: Scott D. Seligman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Today's 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 had been waiting for. Fresh from battling Christian settlement houses intent on converting Jewish children, Lucas accused the public schools of illegal proselytizing and called for Harding's ouster.

After the Board of Education let Harding off in 1906 with a slap on the wrist and declined to clarify the rules governing religion in schools, New York's Jews staged a boycott of school Christmas pageants in protest. The board's concession to exclude sectarian hymns and religious compositions generated enormous antisemitic public backlash. Jews were accused of waging war on Christmas and of being less than true Americans.

The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906 traces the Christmas celebration dispute to the present day and describes how Jewish organizations of the twenty-first century, persuaded that politics are unlikely ever to permit a victory, seem to have reconciled themselves to the status quo and moved on to other, more winnable issues.


Author: Scott D. Seligman
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 11/01/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781640126541

About the Author
Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of numerous books, including The Chief Rabbi's Funeral: The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot (Potomac Books, 2024) and The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City (Potomac Books, 2020).

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