Antisemitism in America by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 23 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by 2, WorldCat member libraries worldwide Is antisemitism on the rise in America? A glance at the daily newspapers suggests a resurgence of animosity yet Leonard Dinnerstein, in this provocative and in-depth study, categorically states that there is less bigotry in this country than ever before.
He also argues in this provocative analysis that Jews have never been more at home in America. What we are seeing today, he writes, is media hype. A long tradition of prejudice, suspicion, and hatred against the Jews, the direct product of Christian teachings, has, in fact, finally begun to wane. In Antisemitism in America, Dinnerstein provides a landmark work - the first comprehensive history of prejudice against Jews in the United States, ranging from its foundations in European Christian culture to the present day.
Dinnerstein's richly detailed and thoroughly documented book reveals how Christians carried their religious prejudices with them to the New World and how they manifested themselves, albeit in muted form, in the colonial wilderness and in the developing American society thereafter.
The Civil War witnessed the first major wave of publicly displayed American antisemitism as individuals in both the North and the South assumed that Jews sided with the enemy. The decades that followed marked the emergence of a full-fledged antisemitic society as Christians excluded Jews from their social circles and wove fantasies for themselves as they pictured what "Jews were really like.
During the Depression hostility toward Jews accelerated as Americans vented their frustrations upon minorities because of the economic crises of the decade. Christians of all stripes called upon Jews to accept the divinity of Jesus Christ, and Father Charles Coughlin emerged as one of the most beloved priests in all of American history as he excoriated Jews and sympathized with Nazis over the airwaves and in his journal, Social Justice. Ironically, Dinnerstein writes, as Americans fought in World War II to make the world safe for democracy, public opinion polls noted a huge increase in American animosity toward Jews.
Not until after the war ended did this enmity subside. While fresh economic opportunities and, heightened sensitivities to the effects of bigotry resulted in the decline of all prejudices in this country, including antisemitism, it nevertheless still cropped up in the highest ranks of government.
Within this volume, Dinnerstein not only chronicles the growth, demise and manifestations of antisemitism on the national scene but devotes individual chapters, as well, to the South and to African Americans, showing that prejudice among both whites and blacks below the Mason-Dixon line flowed from the same stream of Southern evangelical Christianity.
This book, however, reveals in disturbing detail the resilience, and vehemence, of this ugly prejudice. Penetrating, authoritative, and frequently alarming, this is the definitive account of a plague that apparently has a life of its own. The Leo Frank case by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 35 editions published between and in English and held by 1, WorldCat member libraries worldwide In April the body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was found in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked.
Leo Frank, the northern Jew who managed the factory and the last person who admitted seeing her alive, was arrested and accused of her murder. After two years of trials highlighted by sensational newspaper coverage, popular hysteria, and legal demagogery, Frank was sentenced to death. Georgia's governor commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. But then an outraged mob, dedicated to the execution of "justice," kidnapped Frank from prison and lynched him near Mary's hometown.
The only full account of the murders of Mary Phagan and Leo Frank includes a new preface presenting the most recent evidence of Frank's innocence.
American vistas by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 33 editions published between and in English and held by 1, WorldCat member libraries worldwide. America and the survivors of the Holocaust by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 18 editions published between and in English and held by 1, WorldCat member libraries worldwide A study of American policies towards the European Jews who survived the holocaust.
Offers an analysis of displaced persons legislation enacted after the war, and examines the role of American Jews in countering anti-Semitism. Natives and strangers : a multicultural history of Americans by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 34 editions published between and in English and held by 1, WorldCat member libraries worldwide And how did Japanese immigrants overcome decades of venomous xenophobia to become one of America's most successful, highly educated minority groups, while Puerto Ricans remain near the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder?
Natives and strangers : ethnic groups and the building of America by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 21 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Natives and strangers : Blacks, Indians, and immigrants in America by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 11 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Brought completely up to date to reflect recent scholarship and the new wave of immigration to the United States in the last decade, the second edition of this immensely popular book highlights a much-neglected dimension of the American past by giving a unique focus to the history of the nation's minority groups.
Within the context of the country's economic development, the authors show how blacks, Indians, and immigrant minorities helped transform an agrarian society into the modern industrial-urban nation of the s. Remarkable in the breadth of its coverage, this is the first survey that integrates the experiences of racial, religious, and ethnic minorities to present an overall sense of American history while illuminating major trends in the growth of the United States.
The Second Edition includes entirely new material on Indian efforts to retain their cultural independence and their attempts to shape relations with the majority society. The book also new data on recent refugees and current immigration legislation. Written in the same clear, straightforward style that made the previous edition so popular, the Second Edition, which features many well-chosen illustrations, will be essential reading for students of American ethnic history.
The aliens : a history of ethnic minorities in America by Leonard Dinnerstein Book 15 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide This book is organized in four parts. Bushnell; "The dynamics of unopposed capitalism," S. Weaver; and "Frontier society," J. Part two, "The Young Republic," includes such essays as: "Indian removal and land allotment: the civilized tribes and Jacksonian justice," M.
Young; "The black worker," W. Stephenson; "The attempt to found a new Germany in Missouri," J. Hawgood; and, "The development of group consciousness," an essay concerning Irish immigrants O.
The son of a working-class immigrant father from Belarus and a mother born of immigrant parents from Austria-Hungary, Dinnerstein grew up in the Bronx, and like many of his male Jewish contemporaries in the neighborhood in the early postwar years used higher education to leave the working class and challenge the formidable barriers to Jewish advancement.
It seemed [End Page ] logical that Dinnerstein would do a dissertation in political history, because Leuchtenburg was a large presence in that area. Besides, there was little else to American history in graduate programs at the time. But Dinnerstein found another topic quite by accident. A friend who had recently been doing research on the American Jewish Committee at the American Jewish Archives told Dinnerstein that there were boxes of unexplored manuscript materials there about the Leo Frank murder trial and its aftermath.
Dinnerstein's response—"Who's Leo Frank? It was mostly not spoken of by Jews in public. But it nonetheless was remembered for its painful lesson not to be too trusting of even the seemingly most benign diaspora spaces, such as early-twentieth-century Atlanta, where many Jews were prosperous and apparently esteemed by their respectable gentile neighbors.
Besides, what Dinnerstein knew of the gentile world and Americans' attitudes toward Jews was filtered through his experiences in the Bronx and in New York City, where he was largely encapsulated in Jewishness.
Dinnerstein recalled that the more he investigated the Frank trial and the precarious position of Jews in the American South, the more he became aware of the extent of antisemitism, in the South and beyond, which he had neither experienced nor imagined.
Leo Frank's fate seemed no mere exceptional artifact in an otherwise glorious era of Progressive reform, as he had initially thought it to be, but a window into a much more complicated and sinister American reality. At the time, only a handful of historians, principally Oscar Handlin and John Higham, had addressed American antisemitism directly, while others, such as Richard Hofstadter, approached it obliquely when debating the nature of agrarian Populism.
Even Higham, whose work on the subject was the most advanced in terms of theorization, never did a full-length interpretive study, only a handful of essays.
In contrast to American behavioral scientists, who understood antisemitism as evidence of psychopathology, American historians did not take it seriously. John Higham's observation that "no decisive event, no deep crisis, no powerful social movement, no great individual is associated primarily with anti-Semitism" in America, probably passed for the consensus at the time.
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