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

Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African Americans, Hasis Finer shows how-in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta-Jews came to see that their relative prosperity wa sno protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. Jewish leaders and organizations 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-launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own ideals of freedom and equality.

Author: Hasia R. Diner
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 10/01/1995
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.54w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780801850653

About the Author

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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