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In response to the spread of organized anti-Semitism in the United States during the 1930s, leaders of Los Angeles' Jewish community formed a special defense organization known as the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee. The committee later changed its name to the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee. The collection documents the committee's efforts to combat prejudice and educate the public through cooperation with both Jewish and non-Jewish groups, from its formation in 1933 through the early 1990s. On June 5, 1940, Harry M. Warner, one of four brothers who founded the Warner Bros. Studios, addressed 6,000 studio employees and their wives. Warner, outspoken in his support for religious freedoms, made a strong plea that America should not stand idly by while totalitarian ideologies took hold in Europe, and creeped into this country. "As I see it, we have a very simple problem here and that is: United we survive and divided we fall. We must unite and quit listening to anybody discussing whether you or I am a Jew or a Catholic or a Protestant or of any other faith—and not allow anyone to say anything against anybody’s faith—or we will fall just the same as they did over there, because we are confronted with the greatest organized machine, subversive or otherwise, that the world has ever had." 9 x 6 in.
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