In the almost promised land
Subtitle: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
By: Hasia R. Diner.
Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: African Americans -- Relations with Jews.
Description: Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African Americans, Hasia Diner shows how - in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their relative prosperity was no protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks.

Jewish leaders and organizations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests - launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own ideals of freedom and equality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-266) and index.
Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977.