{"id":22123,"date":"2015-02-26T04:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=22123"},"modified":"2015-02-26T04:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T10:13:55","slug":"why-the-original-dodge-logo-was-a-jewish-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/why-the-original-dodge-logo-was-a-jewish-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the original Dodge logo was a Jewish star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By AVISHAY ARTSY<\/p>\n<p>(Jewniverse via JTA) &#8212; In 1900, Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge founded the Dodge Brothers Company. The brothers were not Jewish, but their original logo looked a lot like the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/texts\/About_Jewish_Texts\/Jewish_Texts\/Symbolism\/star_of_david.shtml\">Star of David<\/a>. It was a circle with two interlocking triangles forming a six-pointed star. An interlocked \u201cDB\u201d was at the center of the star, and the words \u201cDodge Brothers Motor Vehicles\u201d encircled the outside edge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22124\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Dodge Brothers logo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dodge_logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22124\" class=\"wp-image-22124 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dodge_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Dodge_logo\" width=\"270\" height=\"265\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 270px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 270\/265;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22124\" class=\"wp-image-22124 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Dodge_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Dodge_logo\" width=\"270\" height=\"265\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-22124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original Dodge Brothers logo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One popular belief was that the symbol was chosen to anger their competitor Henry Ford, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2012\/12\/04\/news-opinion\/opinion\/op-ed-take-that-henry-ford-car-company-goes-from-anti-semitic-founder-to-new-jewish-coo\">notorious anti-Semite<\/a>. (Not true, the Dodge Brothers Club\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodgebrothersclub.org\/faq#8\">insists<\/a>: They were friends at the time.) Plus, the club points out, the Star of David was not universally linked to Judaism when the logo first appeared in 1914.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers died in 1920 and never explained their decision. The DB star was discontinued for the 1939 models,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allpar.com\/cars\/dodge\/dodge-logos.php\">perhaps because<\/a>\u00a0the company believed certain export markets would not buy a car with the link to the Jewish symbol. One newsletter editor suggested the \u201cemblem is also a \u2018Solomon\u2019s Seal\u2019 sign of interconnected spirits, as the brothers were.\u201d Or the triangles could be the Greek letter Delta (for Dodge), or it was modeled after a law enforcement badge. Or maybe they just liked how it looked.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jewniverse is a daily email list and blog featuring extraordinary, inspirational, forgotten, and just-plain-strange dispatches from Jewish culture, tradition and history. Sign up at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewniverse.com\/\">www.TheJewniverse.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Why%20the%20original%20Dodge%20logo%20was%20a%20Jewish%20star\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6675],"tags":[6795,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22125,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions\/22125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}