Preface

Maurianne Adams

John Bracey

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Julian Bond

Part 1: Themes and Issues

Jewish Racism, Black Anti-Semitism (1992)

Andrew Hacker

What Color Is Anti-Semitism? (1995)

Adolph L. Reed Jr.

Towards a Research Agenda on Blacks and Jews in United States History (1993)

John Bracey

August Meier

Historical Impressions of Black-Jewish Relations prior to World War II (1977)

Oscar R. Williams Jr.

Historical Impressions of Black-Jewish Relations prior to World War II: Another Comment and Response (1978)

Morris U. Schappes

Oscar R. Williams Jr.

Part 2: African Americans as the Chosen People

``Go Down, Moses''

``An Ante-Bellum Sermon'' (1895)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel (excerpts) (1994)

Albert J. Raboteau

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Louise Storrow Higginson (1859)

Preface to Harriet: The Moses of Her People (1886)

Sarah H. Bradford

The Kansas Fever Exodus of 1879 (1977)

Nell Irvin Painter

Found: The Lost Tribe of Black Jews (1943)

Roi Ottley

Strangers in the Holy Land (1981)

Bill Kurtis

A-Beta Israel Hebrew Center Leaflet

Part 3: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the New World

The Role of Jews in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1993)

Seymour Drescher

``And Don't Forget the Guinea Voyage'': The Slave Trade of Aaron Lopez of Newport (1975)

Virginia Bever Platt

The Uncomfortable Relationship: African Enslavement in the Common History of Blacks and Jews (1994)

Ralph A. Austen

Four Documents concerning Jews and Slavery (1762; 1806--09; 1814; 1860) Edited

Maurice U. Schappes

Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789--1865 (1961)

Bertram Wallace Korn

Revolution and Reform: The Antebellum Jewish Abolitionists (1984)

Jayme A. Sokolow

The Rabbis and the Slavery Question (1957)

Bertram Wallace Korn

Part 4: From Emancipation to the Great Depression

Document concerning Lynching (1868) Edited

Morris U. Schappes

``For Him the `Schwartzers' Couldn't Do Enough'': A Jewish Peddler and His Black Customers Look at Each Other (1983)

Louis Schmier

Black-Jewish Relations in the Opening Years of the Twentieth Century (1975)

Philip S. Foner

Jews and Blacks (1978)

Steven Hertzberg

``Is the Jew a White Man?'': Press Reaction to the Leo Frank Case, 1913--1915 (1974)

Eugene Levy

Leo M. Frank and the Jewish Community (1968)

Leonard Dinnerstein

From ``The Souls of Black Folks: A Comparison of the 1903 and 1952 Editions'' (1971)

Herbert Aptheker

Booker T. Washington's Discovery of Jews (1982)

Louis R. Harlan

Among the Children of the East Side Jews (1905): A Black Teacher Describes Her Jewish Pupils

Jessie Fortune

Black Images of Jews: From Reconstruction to Depression (1978)

David J. Hellwig

``The Dixie Volunteers'' (1917)

Edgar Leslie

Harry Ruby

Silver Swanee'' (1922)

Eddie Cantor

Jean Schwartz

``Seven or Eleven (My Dixie Pair O' Dice)'' (1923)

Lew Brown

Walter Donaldson

``A $1,328,329 Worth of Fun! for 50¢'' (1932)

From World of Our Fathers (1976)

Irving Howe

Parallels and Divergences: Assimilationist Strategies of Afro-American and Jewish Elites from 1910 to the Early 1930s (1984)

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)

St. Clair Drake

Horace R. Cayton

The Bronx Slave Market (1935)

Ella Baker

Marvel Cooke

David Edwards to James Weldon Johnson (1926)

Walter White to Charles Houston (1938)

J. L. LeFlore to Berney Strauss (1938)

Anti-Semitic Drive in Harlem (1941)

Marie Syrkin

Black-Jewish Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Marsh, Loving, Wolf Surveys and the Race Riot of 1943 (1985)

Dominic J. Capeci Jr.

A. C. MacNeal to Walter White with Enclosure for the Organized Jewry of America in Chicago, March 23, 1933 (1933)

Negro Perceptions of Jews between the World Wars (1969)

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)

Lunabelle Wedlock

Anti-Negroism among Jews (1943)

Louis Harap

Anti-Semitism among Negoes (1943)

L. D. Reddick

African Americans and Jews in Hollywood: Antagonistic Allies (1997)

Thomas Cripps

Part 6: World War II through 1967

Negotiating Coalition: Black and Jewish Civil Rights Agencies in the Twentieth Century (1997)

Cheryl Greenberg

At 50, Levittown Contends with Legacy of Racial Bias (1997)

Bruce Lambert

How Did Jews Become White Folks? (1994)

Karen Brodkin Sacks

Large Jewish Organization in Controversy: B'nai B'rith Members Disagree on Negro Issue (1950)

Herbert L. Wright to Youth Leaders (1952)

Southern Jewish Views on Segregation (1956)

Esther Levine

One Episode in Southern Jewry's Response to Desegregation: An Historical Memoir (1981)

Murray Friedman

Rabbis and Negro Rights in the South, 1954-1967 (1969)

P. Allen Krause

Press Release from Robert Gary (1956)

Resolution Adopted by the Biennial Convention of the American Jewish Congress (1958)

Correspondence between Isaac Toubin and Roy Wilkins (1958)

Correspondence between C. L. Dellums and Roy Wilkins (1960)

From The Best of Harry Golden (1967)

Harry Golden

From Negro and Jew: An Encounter in America

Harry Golden

Blacks and Jews in the Civil Rights Movement (1984)

Claybourne Carson Jr.

The Civil Rights Struggle (1965)

Bayard Rustin

Remarks at an NAACP Labor Dinner (1960)

Ralph Helstein

Black-Jewish Conflict in the Labor Context: Race, Jobs, and Institutional Power (1998)

Herbert Hill

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Jewish: Desegregation in the South and the Crisis of Jewish Liberalism (1997)

Seth Forman

Part 7: 1968 to the Present

Introduction to Negro and Jew: An Encounter in America (1967)

Shlomo Katz

New York's Black Anti-Semitism Scare (1969)

Fred Ferretti

Exploding the Myth of Black Anti-Semitism (1969)

Walter Karp

H. R. Shapiro

Blacks and Jews: An Interview with Julius Lester (1969)

Nat Hentoff

A Negro Speaks to Jews (1968)

Elise C. Rollock

A Negro Discusses Anti-Semitism (1968)

Rayner W. Mann

Black-Jewish Relations in 1984: A Survey of Black U.S. Congressmen (1985)

Kitty O. Cohen

Remarks before the Milwaukee Jewish Council Dinner (1973)

Joseph L. Rauh Jr.

Black-Jewish Relationships: Healing the Wounds (1974)

Alvin F. Poussaint

As for the '02 Kosher-Food Rioters (1977)

Herbert G. Gutman

Such Good Friends: Blacks and Jews in Conflict (1979)

Joel Dreyfuss

The Myth of the Powerful Jew: The Black-Jewish Conflict, Part 2 (1979)

Ellen Willis

Blacks and Jews in the Democratic Coalition (1986)

Adolph L. Reed Jr.

Blacks and Jews in the Chicago Heartland (1989)

Taylor Branch

Part 8: Where Do We Go from Here?

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships between Black and Jewish Women (1984)

Barbara Smith

Blacks and Jews: Thoughts on an Agenda for the Eighties (1983)

Melvin Drimmer

Great Expectations: Defining the Divide between Blacks and Jews (1994)

Derrick Bell

Blacks and Jews: Where Are We? Where Are We Going? (1999)

Julius Lester

Teaching Ethnic Identity and Intergroup Relations: The Case of Black-Jewish Dialogue (1990)

David Schoem

Marshall Stevenson

Bibliography

Index