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When Nazis rallied in Manhattan, one working-class Jewish man from Brooklyn took them on
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When Nazis rallied in Manhattan, one working-class Jewish man from Brooklyn took them on
By Philip Bump October 17 at 3:36 PM
Shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area in 1989, the Los Angeles Times spoke with local residents about the likelihood that they, too, would experience a significant quake at some point in the near future. ... One man the newspaper spoke with was stoic about the prospect. ... “When it comes, it comes. Not much use worrying about it,” local fisherman Isadore Greenbaum told the paper. “I remember when one hit a ways back, some of the people didn’t know what it was, and I told ’em it was just a whale scratching its back.”
What the Times doesn’t seem to have known is that they were speaking with someone with a proven track record of bravery in the face of danger. Isadore Greenbaum was arrested in 1939 for charging the stage at a rally of 22,000 Nazi sympathizers in the middle of Manhattan, enduring a beating at the hands of the uniformed stormtroopers who were providing security before being dragged away by the police.
(Chicago Tribune)
That rally is the subject of a recently released short film, “A Night at the Garden,” showing scenes from inside Madison Square Garden during the event. The footage is chilling, showing the pomp and ceremony we’re used to seeing from Nazi Germany being re-created in the United States.
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Greenbaum is buried next to {his wife} Gertrude, who died in 2010. His tombstone includes a quote from II Corinthians: ... “Absent from the body, present with the Lord.”
Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Post based in New York City. Follow @pbump
By Philip Bump October 17 at 3:36 PM
Shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area in 1989, the Los Angeles Times spoke with local residents about the likelihood that they, too, would experience a significant quake at some point in the near future. ... One man the newspaper spoke with was stoic about the prospect. ... “When it comes, it comes. Not much use worrying about it,” local fisherman Isadore Greenbaum told the paper. “I remember when one hit a ways back, some of the people didn’t know what it was, and I told ’em it was just a whale scratching its back.”
What the Times doesn’t seem to have known is that they were speaking with someone with a proven track record of bravery in the face of danger. Isadore Greenbaum was arrested in 1939 for charging the stage at a rally of 22,000 Nazi sympathizers in the middle of Manhattan, enduring a beating at the hands of the uniformed stormtroopers who were providing security before being dragged away by the police.
(Chicago Tribune)
That rally is the subject of a recently released short film, “A Night at the Garden,” showing scenes from inside Madison Square Garden during the event. The footage is chilling, showing the pomp and ceremony we’re used to seeing from Nazi Germany being re-created in the United States.
....
Greenbaum is buried next to {his wife} Gertrude, who died in 2010. His tombstone includes a quote from II Corinthians: ... “Absent from the body, present with the Lord.”
Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Post based in New York City. Follow @pbump