Strangers & Neighbors

by Adams, Maurianne; Bracey, John H.

• ISBN13: 9781558492363
• ISBN10: 1558492364
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

Much has been written about the historic relationship between American blacks and Jews. Some accounts stress the strong alliance for social justice between the two groups during the civil rights movement, while others portray bleaker moments and include accusations of Jewish racism or black anti-Semitism. What is often missing is a larger historical perspective. This volume provides a wide range of analyses and documents that help us move beyond stereotypes and portray the full complexity of black-Jewish relations in America over the past three hundred years.

Following two introductory sections addressing "Themes and Issues" and "African Americans as the Chosen People, " the book is divided into five historical periods: the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the New World; emancipation to the Great Depression; the era of the Depression and World War II; World War II through 1967; and 1968 to the present. Each section contains a mix of scholarly articles, historical documents, and contemporary perspectives. A final section entitled "Where Do We Go from Here?"

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Maurianne Adams
John Bracey
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(17)
Julian Bond
Part 1: Themes and Issues
Jewish Racism, Black Anti-Semitism (1992)	18	(6)
Andrew Hacker
What Color Is Anti-Semitism? (1995)	24	(3)
Adolph L. Reed Jr.
Towards a Research Agenda on Blacks and Jews in United States History (1993)	27	(7)
John Bracey
August Meier
Historical Impressions of Black-Jewish Relations prior to World War II (1977)	34	(9)
Oscar R. Williams Jr.
Historical Impressions of Black-Jewish Relations prior to World War II: Another Comment and Response (1978)	43	(10)
Morris U. Schappes
Oscar R. Williams Jr.
Part 2: African Americans as the Chosen People
``Go Down, Moses''	53	(2)
``An Ante-Bellum Sermon'' (1895)	55	(2)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel (excerpts) (1994)	57	(7)
Albert J. Raboteau
Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Louise Storrow Higginson (1859)	64	(1)
Preface to Harriet: The Moses of Her People (1886)	65	(1)
Sarah H. Bradford
The Kansas Fever Exodus of 1879 (1977)	66	(18)
Nell Irvin Painter
Found: The Lost Tribe of Black Jews (1943)	84	(8)
Roi Ottley
Strangers in the Holy Land (1981)	92	(8)
Bill Kurtis
A-Beta Israel Hebrew Center Leaflet	100	(5)
Part 3: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the New World
The Role of Jews in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1993)	105	(11)
Seymour Drescher
``And Don't Forget the Guinea Voyage'': The Slave Trade of Aaron Lopez of Newport (1975)	116	(15)
Virginia Bever Platt
The Uncomfortable Relationship: African Enslavement in the Common History of Blacks and Jews (1994)	131	(6)
Ralph A. Austen
Four Documents concerning Jews and Slavery (1762; 1806--09; 1814; 1860) Edited	137	(10)
Maurice U. Schappes
Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789--1865 (1961)	147	(36)
Bertram Wallace Korn
Revolution and Reform: The Antebellum Jewish Abolitionists (1984)	183	(15)
Jayme A. Sokolow
The Rabbis and the Slavery Question (1957)	198	(21)
Bertram Wallace Korn
Part 4: From Emancipation to the Great Depression
Document concerning Lynching (1868) Edited	219	(4)
Morris U. Schappes
``For Him the `Schwartzers' Couldn't Do Enough'': A Jewish Peddler and His Black Customers Look at Each Other (1983)	223	(14)
Louis Schmier
Black-Jewish Relations in the Opening Years of the Twentieth Century (1975)	237	(8)
Philip S. Foner
Jews and Blacks (1978)	245	(16)
Steven Hertzberg
``Is the Jew a White Man?'': Press Reaction to the Leo Frank Case, 1913--1915 (1974)	261	(10)
Eugene Levy
Leo M. Frank and the Jewish Community (1968)	271	(12)
Leonard Dinnerstein
From ``The Souls of Black Folks: A Comparison of the 1903 and 1952 Editions'' (1971)	283	(4)
Herbert Aptheker
Booker T. Washington's Discovery of Jews (1982)	287	(9)
Louis R. Harlan
Among the Children of the East Side Jews (1905): A Black Teacher Describes Her Jewish Pupils	296	(4)
Jessie Fortune
Black Images of Jews: From Reconstruction to Depression (1978)	300	(16)
David J. Hellwig
``The Dixie Volunteers'' (1917)	316	(3)
Edgar Leslie
Harry Ruby
Silver Swanee'' (1922)	319	(5)
Eddie Cantor
Jean Schwartz
``Seven or Eleven (My Dixie Pair O' Dice)'' (1923)	324	(4)
Lew Brown
Walter Donaldson
``A $1,328,329 Worth of Fun! for 50¢'' (1932)	328	(1)
From World of Our Fathers (1976)	329	(2)
Irving Howe
Parallels and Divergences: Assimilationist Strategies of Afro-American and Jewish Elites from 1910 to the Early 1930s (1984)	331	(24)
David Levering Lewis
Part 5: The Era of the Depression and World War II
From Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945)	355	(14)
St. Clair Drake
Horace R. Cayton
The Bronx Slave Market (1935)	369	(6)
Ella Baker
Marvel Cooke
David Edwards to James Weldon Johnson (1926)	375	(2)
Walter White to Charles Houston (1938)	377	(1)
J. L. LeFlore to Berney Strauss (1938)	378	(2)
Anti-Semitic Drive in Harlem (1941)	380	(4)
Marie Syrkin
Black-Jewish Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Marsh, Loving, Wolf Surveys and the Race Riot of 1943 (1985)	384	(23)
Dominic J. Capeci Jr.
A. C. MacNeal to Walter White with Enclosure for the Organized Jewry of America in Chicago, March 23, 1933 (1933)	407	(2)
Negro Perceptions of Jews between the World Wars (1969)	409	(18)
Robert G. Weisbord
Arthur Stein
Comparisons by Negro Publications of the Plight of the Jews in Germany with that of the Negro in America (1942)	427	(17)
Lunabelle Wedlock
Anti-Negroism among Jews (1943)	444	(5)
Louis Harap
Anti-Semitism among Negoes (1943)	449	(8)
L. D. Reddick
African Americans and Jews in Hollywood: Antagonistic Allies (1997)	457	(19)
Thomas Cripps
Part 6: World War II through 1967
Negotiating Coalition: Black and Jewish Civil Rights Agencies in the Twentieth Century (1997)	476	(19)
Cheryl Greenberg
At 50, Levittown Contends with Legacy of Racial Bias (1997)	495	(5)
Bruce Lambert
How Did Jews Become White Folks? (1994)	500	(20)
Karen Brodkin Sacks
Large Jewish Organization in Controversy: B'nai B'rith Members Disagree on Negro Issue (1950)	520	(2)
Herbert L. Wright to Youth Leaders (1952)	522	(2)
Southern Jewish Views on Segregation (1956)	524	(4)
Esther Levine
One Episode in Southern Jewry's Response to Desegregation: An Historical Memoir (1981)	528	(12)
Murray Friedman
Rabbis and Negro Rights in the South, 1954-1967 (1969)	540	(19)
P. Allen Krause
Press Release from Robert Gary (1956)	559	(1)
Resolution Adopted by the Biennial Convention of the American Jewish Congress (1958)	560	(4)
Correspondence between Isaac Toubin and Roy Wilkins (1958)	564	(2)
Correspondence between C. L. Dellums and Roy Wilkins (1960)	566	(1)
From The Best of Harry Golden (1967)	567	(3)
Harry Golden
From Negro and Jew: An Encounter in America	570	(4)
Harry Golden
Blacks and Jews in the Civil Rights Movement (1984)	574	(16)
Claybourne Carson Jr.
The Civil Rights Struggle (1965)	590	(3)
Bayard Rustin
Remarks at an NAACP Labor Dinner (1960)	593	(3)
Ralph Helstein
Black-Jewish Conflict in the Labor Context: Race, Jobs, and Institutional Power (1998)	596	(24)
Herbert Hill
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Jewish: Desegregation in the South and the Crisis of Jewish Liberalism (1997)	620	(21)
Seth Forman
Part 7: 1968 to the Present
Introduction to Negro and Jew: An Encounter in America (1967)	641	(4)
Shlomo Katz
New York's Black Anti-Semitism Scare (1969)	645	(15)
Fred Ferretti
Exploding the Myth of Black Anti-Semitism (1969)	660	(9)
Walter Karp
H. R. Shapiro
Blacks and Jews: An Interview with Julius Lester (1969)	669	(12)
Nat Hentoff
A Negro Speaks to Jews (1968)	681	(3)
Elise C. Rollock
A Negro Discusses Anti-Semitism (1968)	684	(4)
Rayner W. Mann
Black-Jewish Relations in 1984: A Survey of Black U.S. Congressmen (1985)	688	(14)
Kitty O. Cohen
Remarks before the Milwaukee Jewish Council Dinner (1973)	702	(5)
Joseph L. Rauh Jr.
Black-Jewish Relationships: Healing the Wounds (1974)	707	(2)
Alvin F. Poussaint
As for the '02 Kosher-Food Rioters (1977)	709	(3)
Herbert G. Gutman
Such Good Friends: Blacks and Jews in Conflict (1979)	712	(8)
Joel Dreyfuss
The Myth of the Powerful Jew: The Black-Jewish Conflict, Part 2 (1979)	720	(9)
Ellen Willis
Blacks and Jews in the Democratic Coalition (1986)	729	(12)
Adolph L. Reed Jr.
Blacks and Jews in the Chicago Heartland (1989)	741	(24)
Taylor Branch
Part 8: Where Do We Go from Here?
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships between Black and Jewish Women (1984)	765	(16)
Barbara Smith
Blacks and Jews: Thoughts on an Agenda for the Eighties (1983)	781	(21)
Melvin Drimmer
Great Expectations: Defining the Divide between Blacks and Jews (1994)	802	(11)
Derrick Bell
Blacks and Jews: Where Are We? Where Are We Going? (1999)	813	(10)
Julius Lester
Teaching Ethnic Identity and Intergroup Relations: The Case of Black-Jewish Dialogue (1990)	823	(14)
David Schoem
Marshall Stevenson
Bibliography	837	(6)
Index	843