Given when he was born, where he lived, and his own ethnic and cultural
group, I would be surprised if he were either more or less "anti-semitic"
than others in the United States who weren't themselves Jewish.
It wasn't remarkable for a Christian home owner to want to sell his home
to another Christian; for a Christian employer to want a Christian employee.
What we have here, I think, is a kind of "social distance" felt by one
social and cultural group from another.
In my own lifetime, newspaper advertisements for houses for sale or
apartments to rent in New York City included clues in their texts about who
they
wanted, e.g. --- "churches nearby" --- carrying with it an implication of
who they *did not* want.
Edison was a man of his time, place, and background.
paul charosh
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