Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish Archives
Angaben zur Quelle:
38,2 (1986) 113-122
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
African Americans Relations with Jews
;
Jews
Abstract:
Argues that the resentment and hostility of Blacks towards Jews in the USA is only partially based on real grievances, and predates the beginning of widespread contacts with Jews in the northern cities in the 1920s. This hostility, expressed in church teachings, newspapers, and in folklore, originates in the absorption of white Protestant fundamentalist teachings and in stereotypes of Jews as economic exploiters. These attitudes were perpetuated by leaders such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in their earlier works. In a critique of this article [AJA 39, 2 (Nov 1987) 192-198], Stephen J. Whitfield states that social antisemitism in the late 19th-early 20th centuries affected all segments of the population, not only Blacks, that many Blacks admired and envied Jews, that the economic stereotype of the Jew was sometimes justified, and that modern Black antisemitism is based on Third World anti-Zionist ideology. Dinnerstein replies on pp. 199-202.
Note:
Whitfield, Stephen J: A critique of [the above]. Ibid. 39,2 (1987) 193-198. Dinnerstein, L.: A reply. 199-202.
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