Research Catalog

Title

In the almost promised land : American Jews and Blacks, 1915- 1935 / Hasia R. Diner.

Author

Diner, Hasia R.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xvi, 271 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

African Americans > Relations with Jews

Note

• Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-266) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Jews and Blacks in American society -- "The souls of two nations" : images of Blacks in the Yiddish press -- "To fight their battles" : English language Jewish magazines and images of Blacks -- "A covenant kept" : Jews in the Black civil rights movement -- "To serve at the common altar" : Jews and Black philanthropy -- "Our exploited Negro brothers" : Jewish labor and the organization of Black workers -- Conclusion: Blacks and the Jewish quest for identity.

ISBN

0801850657 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^94035516^

OCLC

• 31172709
• SCSB-11256287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library