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Joseph Seligman in politics and
society - the Henry Hilton affair
Page entitled : Joseph
Seligman in politics and society
Content of this page is about :
How Joseph Seligman limited himself his political career and tested the
limits, Jewish bankers could attain in American society, the Hilton case of
anti-Semitism
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Seligman's social
ambitions were definitely challenged by an event that took place in summer
1877, at the Grand Union Hotel of Saratoga, then a fashionable summer resort
of Northern New York. Although they had been used to spend their summers at
the Grand Union in Saratoga for several years, the Seligmans were simply
refused a reservation for the season of 1877. Joseph Seligman took the
incident so badly as to mark it as the first major act of anti-Semitism in
America. It is remembered as such, although it may well have had quite
different roots. ...
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