ABSTRACT
In the annals of the American Jewish Yearbook, the years from 1910 to 1916 seem to mark a noticeable upsurge in anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism became, in the phrase of Solomon F. Bloom, "a settled policy of the state, a policy implemented by 'spontaneous' outbursts of suborned mobs". After 1920 the existence of anti-Semitism in the United States had become, as Henry Adams Gibbons said, "a demonstrated fact". By 1933 it was clearly apparent, however, that anti-Semitism had entered upon a new phase in America. According to Dr. Donald S. Strong, 121 organizations were actively spreading anti-Semitic propaganda in the United States between 1933 and 1940. Each phase of anti-Semitism has developed logically out of the phase or phases which preceded it and has paralleled changes in the economy. One can see the broad outline of a pattern in this progression; first social discrimination, then increasing economic discrimination, and, finally, overt organized political anti-Semitism.
