Victoria Saker Woeste, Ph.D.

Victoria Saker Woeste received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and her B.A. from the University of Virginia. Woeste is a historian of law, political economy, politics, religion, and antisemitism. In 2012 she published Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech.

July 11, 2024

Episode 5: Conspiracies

At the turn of the 20th century, conspiracy theories about Jews ran rampant in American society. Many Americans – from the famed automaker Henry Ford and to officers in the U.S. Army – believed that Jews controlled media, do…