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"It had been 65 years since #HenryFord, the pioneer automaker and one of #America’s most outspoken, hateful, and prominent #antiSemites, had yielded to pressure and ended his overt effort to promote the hatred of #Jews.

My mother, in her early 70s, asked me for assistance in finding and purchasing her first new car. Among other things, I asked whether she had any preferences regarding make and model.

“Well, not a #Ford,” she replied.

This was 1992. Henry Ford had been dead for more than 40 years, but my mother had neither forgotten nor forgiven him. She was standing at the end of a very long line of Jews in America. Up near the front of that line was a #Jewish family from #SiouxCity, #Iowa, that stood alone against Ford when he was at the height of his #antisemitic rampage.

The Barish family of Sioux City was guided by determination, principle, and courage. More about this unusual family to come."

bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/

Bleeding Heartland · The Sioux City family that risked its livelihood to fight antisemitismArnold Garson recounts how Ben Barish and his sons walked away from a successful Ford dealership in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1921.