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<p><P>Is antisemitism on the rise in America? Did the hymietown comment by Jesse Jackson and the Crown Heights riot signal a resurgence of antisemitism among blacks? The surprising answer to both questions, according to Leonard Dinnerstein, is no&#151;Jews have never been more at home in America. But what we are seeing today, he writes, are the well-publicized results of a long tradition of prejudice, suspicion, and hatred against Jews&#151;the direct product of the Christian teachings underlying so much of America's national heritage.<br> In <b>Antisemitism in America</b>, Leonard Dinnerstein provides a landmark work&#151;the first comprehensive history of prejudice against Jews in the United States, from colonial times to the present. His richly documented book traces American antisemitism from its roots in the dawn of the Christian era and arrival of the first European settlers, to its peak during World War II and its present day permutations&#151;with separate chapters on antisemititsm in the South and among African-Americans, showing that prejudice among both whites and blacks flowed from the same stream of Southern evangelical Christianity. He shows, for example, that non-Chr

Author

Leonard Dinnerstein

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195037807

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science