Forgotten Hero: Louis Marshall and American Jewish Leadership

Congregation Emanu-El’s book launch for this new biography will celebrate Mr. Marshall’s unique effect as founder or head of an array of American Jewish organizations and institutions, and as the leader of efforts that produced Henry Ford’s apology to the Jews, revised American foreign policy toward tsarist Russia in the era of pogroms, and kept the golden door open to hundreds of thousands of Jewish and other immigrants before the 1920s. The event will feature discussion of key phases of Mr. Marshall’s contribution to Jewish and American affairs, including the rise of key American Jewish organizations,anti-defamation efforts against Ford and others, immigration advocacy, the Marshall family’s unique effect on environmental protection in America, and the tribute paid to Mr. Marshall by Temple Emanu-El.