The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000

Diner, Hasia R.

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“…The NAACP was the first major American organization for the promotion of black civil rights, saw an intersection in the call for the protection of blacks from lynching and Jews fleeing from Russian pogroms. In their first organization meeting, delegates passed a resolution of sympathy with the victims of the Kishinev Massacre and vowed to combat the unending violence visited on America's black population ( [5], p. 92).…”

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“…Muckraking journalists exposed one flaw after another in American society leading to substantial changes in educational, legal, and professional options. However, such challenges to the "status quo" in American society by these groups created a backlash led by White Protestant Americans who identified with the older social order and believed any attack on the "status quo" was an attack on them ( [5], p. 115). This, in turn, led to restrictive immigration policies directed at the composition of the recent immigrants between 1880 and 1920 ([5], p. 116).…”

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“…This, in turn, led to restrictive immigration policies directed at the composition of the recent immigrants between 1880 and 1920 ([5], p. 116). 5 The founders of the NAACP set out to allow people, individually or collectively, to define who they are, so society could accept their definition. The founder's people's need to be defined by their dreams, goals, sense of identity, and selfconsciousness, not the identity thrust upon them by society ([4], pp.…”

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“…17-18). 6 This circumstance was largely the by-product of immigration patterns that shifted at the turn-of-the-century, for both the black and Jewish diasporas ( [5], p. 25). 7 Paradoxically, so did their limited and confined relations between the two groups.…”

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Equality before the Law Matters: The Legacy of American Jews and the Founding of the NAACP and the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Williams¹

2022

Human Rights in the Contemporary World

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This chapter examines efforts by a small cadre of leading American Jews to bring to light human rights violations toward African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century. More specifically, this effort scrutinizes efforts by Jews who ushered in an era of human rights campaigning based on their moral principles, norms, and cultural practices. These same principles and practices manifested themselves in the co-founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. This profoundly important organization would lead concerted efforts to organize legal protest movements to bring about fairness in housing, employment, and education, regardless of race, color, or creed. This study will answer the following questions: What motivated leading American Jews to help co-found the NAACP and guide it become a leading advocate for African Americans in legal, political, and financial matters? Who were the Jewish leaders who came from various fields, including civil matters, education, law, and business to help create this nascent enterprise? What coalition-building took place between the Jews and African Americans over the last century leading to the birth of the civil rights movement in America in the 1950s and 1960s? What inroads or gains were made from the establishment of the NAACP and its development to bring about civil rights, and equality under the law in housing, education, employment, and banking to the forefront for blacks living in America? Ultimately, this research will underscore ways in which leading Jewish men and women who helped establish the NAACP were successful in integrating this organization with other civic organizations and working black leaders to make it a force in making the NAACP a force in achieving social justice and equality before the law.

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“…They find that Jewish congregations generally “show the most complexity in regards to thinking about security” (2018: 34), but prioritize general themes across religious communities rather than centering on the distinct issues faced by any one faith group. Given the unique history of antisemitism and Jews’ changing place in American society (for historical overviews, see Brodkin 1998 ; Diner 2004 ; Goldstein 2006 ), it is thus necessary to extend such scholarship to focus specifically on Jewish communities’ negotiation of this dilemma.…”

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White Noise and Unnecessary Evil: Balancing Security and Community in Synagogues

Samson

2021

Cont Jewry

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Violent hate crimes at places of worship such as synagogues in recent years have engendered a distinctive dilemma for religious institutions: How can one ensure people’s safety and security without compromising the warm and welcoming environment that these communities seek to create? Drawing upon five interviews with Jewish leaders, this article explores how this dilemma is being negotiated by synagogues in Chicago. After presenting three key predicaments faced by synagogues as regards security, the article argues that securitization should be understood as a form of “white noise,” necessary to religious institutions’ functioning and yet necessarily invisible. Indeed, although security is now an essential feature of many synagogues, it is also at constant risk of undermining their cordial ambience through providing a reminder of one’s mortality, requiring that it be present, but in the background. Consequently, synagogues today are compelled to find a careful balance between hospitality and openness, with diverse and often paradoxical implications.

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2016

Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema

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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000

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Equality before the Law Matters: The Legacy of American Jews and the Founding of the NAACP and the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Equality before the Law Matters: The Legacy of American Jews and the Founding of the NAACP and the Modern Civil Rights Movement

White Noise and Unnecessary Evil: Balancing Security and Community in Synagogues

Consumerism and Ethnicity

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