Louis Marshall, Defender of Jewish Rights

Provenance/Bookplate. Rosenstock, Morton. Louis Marshall, Defender of Jewish Rights. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965. 334 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine in very good price clipped dust jacket with Brodart. Bookplate of Alfred Heacock Whittaker to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean. $45. * A study of constitutional lawyer and communal leader Louis Marshall, focusing on his advocacy work during the early twentieth century. Rosenstock examines Marshall's leadership within the American Jewish Committee and his legal efforts to combat antisemitism, immigration restrictions, and civil rights violations. The text analyzes Marshall's methodology in navigating public policy, defending minority rights, and responding to domestic and international crises, including the Henry Ford antisemitic campaigns and the aftermath of the First World War. From the library of Dr. Alfred Heacock Whittaker (1894-1982). Whittaker was a prominent Detroit industrial surgeon, civic leader, and a dedicated bibliophile who served as President of the Book Club of Detroit in 1965 and President of the Detroit Historical Society in 1966.…