Meyer london wikipedia

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Goldfogle by a tally of 7, to 6, He was defeated for reelection two months later in November. London died on Sunday, June 6, As he was crossing Second Avenue at 15th Street, he was caught in the middle of heavy automobile traffic passing in both directions. London became confused and when he halted in the middle of the road he was struck by a car, suffering internal injuries.

News immediately began to spread about the death of the beloved Congressman and crowds immediately began to gather in front of the hospital, the Londons' home, and the building of the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper. The next day, London's body was taken to the Forward building, where it lay in state while 25, men, women, and children filed past the casket, paying their respects. A funeral followed on Wednesday, June 10, one of the greatest mass displays of mourning in New York City's history, witnessed by an estimated , people.

The streets were jammed with a procession of 50, people, as hundreds of thousands crowded windows and hung from fire escapes or stood along the procession route in a crowd jammed six people deep.

London's body was interred at Mt. In an article for The New York Review of Books, historian Tony Judt writes that London is a relative of his: "Our cousin Meyer London had emigrated in to New York from a nearby village; there he was elected in as the second Socialist congressman before being ousted by an ignominious alliance of wealthy New York Jews disturbed by his socialism and American Zionists aghast at his well-publicized suspicion of their project.

London's support of the Wilson administration's war effort enraged many within the Socialist Party, who saw London's actions as a rank betrayal of the party's anti- militarist program. In a statement to members of the Socialist Party, London's radical opponents chronicled his transgressions:.

He ignored the St. Louis Resolution right after it was adopted. He refused to introduce bills suggested by the National Executive Committee. He neglected every opportunity of manifesting the attitude of the Socialist Party When London sent his famous telegram to Russia not to conclude a separate peace, a good many of us felt that he ought to be recalled from Congress.

If we had no courage to recall him then, let us have courage now to reconsider his nomination. As a Jewish Socialist, London's position on Zionism further complicated his political situation. Although he upset socialist Labor Zionists by refusing to introduce a resolution endorsing the Balfour Declaration into the House of Representatives, London did not oppose the right of Jews to live "a separate and distinct national existence fortified by a Jewish state All that I ask of them is that they should not speak in the name of all Jews.

The Jewish community was further fragmented in opposition to London, with Orthodox Jews advocating his defeat because he was not religious while rich and powerful Jews worked against him because he was a socialist.

Wise urged the Jews to redeem themselves by rejecting London. London was thus placed in the uncomfortable position of simultaneously being attacked both as a dangerous radical on the one hand and as a collaborationist traitor to radicalism on the other; as un-American and pro-German on the one hand and as an American nationalist and abettor of militarism on the other; for subsuming the Socialist program in the interest of the Jews in his district on the one hand and for neglecting the sweeping desire for Jewish nationhood in the interests of socialist internationalism on the other.

With the Democratic and Republican parties united behind a single "fusion" candidate and his own supporters fragmented, London narrowly lost reelection in , falling to Henry M. Goldfogle by a tally of 7, to 6, The vote was 10, for London to 8, for Goldfogle. Rubenberg states: "On September 21, , the American Congress passed a joint resolution stating its support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people". Death and legacy. London died on Sunday, June 6, As he was crossing Second Avenue at 15th Street, he was caught in the middle of heavy automobile traffic passing in both directions.

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