http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/jim-abourezk-bu.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Sun, 27 May 2012 21:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://mondoweiss.net/2007/09/jim-abourezk-bu.html/comment-page-1#comment-69856 Montag Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/09/19/jim-abourezk-bu.html#comment-69856 <p>American Jews had to join special organizations like that once upon a time. There was an article in Smithsonian Magazine by a guy who was researching the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 or thereabouts. Trouble was the transcript of the trial had been LOST. So he was reading up on the Jewish lawyer who defended the factory owners (and got them off!) and found a footnote that he kept bound transcripts of all his cases and had sent them to a Jewish Lawyers' Association. The author contacted the archive that the now-defunct association's papers had been sent to and they were able to find two out of the three volumes of the transcript. So thanks to the lawyer's ego most of the trial has been saved. </p> American Jews had to join special organizations like that once upon a time. There was an article in Smithsonian Magazine by a guy who was researching the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 or thereabouts. Trouble was the transcript of the trial had been LOST. So he was reading up on the Jewish lawyer who defended the factory owners (and got them off!) and found a footnote that he kept bound transcripts of all his cases and had sent them to a Jewish Lawyers' Association. The author contacted the archive that the now-defunct association's papers had been sent to and they were able to find two out of the three volumes of the transcript. So thanks to the lawyer's ego most of the trial has been saved.

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