The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906
Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Cloth Over Boards
- ISBN 9781640126541
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 486 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 photographs, 6 illustrations, 1 chronology, index 667
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Dramatis Personae
Prologue: Boys and Girls, Be Like Christ
1. This Private, Clandestine, Surreptitious “Union of Church and State”
2. Those Ever-Watchful Collectors of Stray Lambs
3. The Jews Demand That We Give Up Christmas Traditions
4. An Unfit Man
5. Systematically Christianizing
6. I Will Speak about Christ as Much as I Want To
7. To Say the Least, Indiscreet
8. The Christs Are Murdering Our Babies
9. There Is Nothing Harmful in These Christmas Observances
10. Empty Seats in the Jewish Neighborhoods
11. This Is Too Much to Endure, Especially from Jew Rabbis
12. Sanctioned by Custom
13. Anti-Sectarianism Has Gone Mad
14. I Will Not Back Down from This
15. Almighty God, We Acknowledge Our Dependence upon Thee
16. Not Yet Learned How to Wage War
Afterword
Chronology
Further Reading
Notes
Index
