In the Almost Promised Land

American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935

By: Hasia R. Diner

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Paperback | 14 December 1995

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Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African-Americans, Hasia Diner shows how - in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their relative prosperity was no protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. It thus became in the Jewish American self-interest to support the black struggle for racial justice and to fight against American prejudice. Jewish leaders and organisations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests without seeming ''pushy'' or ''too demanding'' - launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own pronouncements of freedom and equality.

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""No one has equaled the American historian Hasia Diner in richly documenting the strong support given to African-American legal, economic, and educational rights, between 1880 and 1935, by Jewish newspapers, religious leaders, lawyers, labor leaders, social workers, and philanthropists.""

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jews and Blacks in American Society	p. 3
"The Souls of Two Nations": Images of Blacks in the Yiddish Press	p. 28
"To Fight Their Battles": English-Language Jewish Magazines and Images of Blacks	p. 89
"A Covenant Kept": Jews in the Black Civil Rights Movement	p. 118
"To Serve at the Common Altar": Jews and Black Philanthropy	p. 164
"Our Exploited Negro Brothers": Jewish Labor and the Organization of Black Workers	p. 199
Conclusion: Blacks and the Jewish Quest for Identity	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 244
Index	p. 267
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In the Almost Promised Land

American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935

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