Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL OFFICE
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
of  B'NAI   B'RITH
10 Stale Street, Suite 314, Boston 9, Mass.
To: Robert E, Segal
Prom: Is ado re Zack
Date: January 3, 1956
Subject:
What appears to be a minor invasion of Boston business and professional
buildings by the Feeneyites took place. Tuesday, January 3, according to
information received at this office.
The Feeneyites, traveling.in pairs, were circulating copies of the January,
1956 issue of "The Point" going from office to office in the, various ..buildings
around Boston*. This issue of "The Point is entitled .."The Jewish Gangs of
Boston."     *?
According to our information, the.Feeneyites asked the individuals, in these
office and business establishments, if they were Catholic. If the answer was
in the affirmative, they would hand a copy of "The Point" to the individual.
They were not selling their, books, they were simply distributing this anti-
Semitic issue of "The Point,"
Reports were received from the.Boylston Street area, from the Area.of Kilby
Street, Broad Street, State.Street and 18 Tremont Street, The pamphlet in
question is divided into four parts, subtitled (1) The Siege, (2) The Peddler's
Gang, (3) The Political Gang, (li) The.Harvard Gang, The section marked "The
Siege" there is an.attack on.Rabbi Joseph Shubow. of Boston, an attack on.
Brandeis University, Archbishop Cushing for participating in the Brandeis commemoration,of the Catholic Chapel there, an attack on.Joseph Linsey and Ben
G. Shapiro. Under "Peddler*s Gang".there is an.attack en Jewish business houes
such as Filene's, Stop &. Shop, R, H. White*s, Gilchrist's, the Charles B. Perkins
Cigar Stores, Wethems, Leeds, E. B. Horn, Luby Chevrolet and the following, hotels:
The Kenmore,..Somerset, Vendome, Sherry Biltmore, Lenox and Braemore, Also the
Little Building.and U. S. Trust Company,
The section subtitled."The Political Gang" contains an attack on.Jerome Kappaport
for the part- he played.in running and organizing the New Boston Committee.
Others named were Judge Reuben Lurie, Dr, Maurice Victor and Jackson Holtz,
In the section marked "The Harvard Gang" the Feeneyites repeated many of the
charges they have made.about Harvard in.their weekly meeting on Boston.Common and
they attacked Judge Charles Wyzanski by name.
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cc: Alan Morse
David A, Rose
Milton Ellerin
Alex Miller
Arnold Forster
Murray Isen
Mosier Goldberg