On June 14, 1877, a prominent Jewish businessman by the name of Joseph Seligman is turned away from staying at the Grand Union Hotel, with the hotel claiming a new policy “no Israelites shall be permitted in the future to stop at this hotel.”
This Day in Esoteric Political History podcast hosts Jody, Niki and Kellie are joined by Zev Eleff to discuss what came to be known as the Seligman Affair, perhaps the most high-profile case of antisemitism in the United States up to that point. It revealed a lot about shifting class, race, and religious lines in post-Civil-War America.
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