News Was Edison anti-Semitic Facebook Twitter Email SMS WhatsApp Share By J. Correspondent | February 21, 1997 Alleging that Edison was anti-Semitic are Stephen Esrati, a philatelic journalist in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Ken Lawrence, a vice-president of the 56,000-member American Philatelic Society, who has researched Nazism and the postal service. U.S. author Paul Auster, who wrote "The Invention of Solitude," said his father was hired "for a brief moment" as an assistant in Edison's library "only to have the job taken away from him the next day because Edison learned he was a Jew." Car developer Henry Ford, known for anti-Semitic views, sent Edison a complete set of the notorious anti-Jewish work "The International Jew," author Allan Gould writes. J. Correspondent Also On J. Local Voice Who is really under attack at SFSU? Analysis Why NRA's LaPierre freaks out Jews and heartens anti-Semites News Davis imam apologizes for anti-Semitic sermon Bay Area Rise in anti-Semitic incidents at Bay Area schools Subscribe to our Newsletter Enter Email Sign Up