In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
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In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935

In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935

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Hasia R. Diner (Author)  

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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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Hasia Diner is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Erin's Daughters in America and A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 (Volume II in the series The Jewish People in America), both available from Johns Hopkins.
  • Contributor: Hasia R. Diner
  • Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780801850653
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Packaged Dimensions: 140x216mm
  • Packaged Weight: 369
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release Date: 1995-10-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Hasia Diner is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Erin's Daughters in America and A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 (Volume II in the series The Jewish People in America), both available from Johns Hopkins.

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