Dinnerstein, Leonard

Antisemitism in America by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
16 editions published between 1994 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,588 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. Jews could not vote, for example, in Rhode Island or New Hampshire until 1842, and in North Carolina until 1868. 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." Antisemitic fervor mixed with racism at the beginning of the twentieth century, accelerated by the views of eugenicists, fears of Bolshevism, and the rantings of Henry Ford. 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. especially during Richard Nixon's presidency. 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. "It must also be emphasized," Dinnerstein writes, "that in no Christian country has antisemitism been weaker than it has been in the United States," with its traditions of tolerance, diversity, and a secular national government. 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 )
15 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in English and held by 1,233 libraries worldwide
In April 1913 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.

America and the survivors of the Holocaust by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
5 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 1,233 libraries worldwide

Ethnic Americans : a history of immigration by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
16 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in English and held by 1,194 libraries worldwide
A comprehensive overview of the immigration and assimilation into America of European, Asian, and Latin American peoples from 1607 to 1999. The text has been expanded to incorporate research on women immigrants, the "new refugees", and the continuing asylum crisis of the 1990s.

Ethnic Americans : a history of immigration and assimilation by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
16 editions published between 1975 and 1982 in English and held by 1,077 libraries worldwide

Natives and strangers : ethnic groups and the building of America by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
8 editions published between 1979 and 1981 in English and held by 982 libraries worldwide

Natives and strangers : a multicultural history of Americans by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
15 editions published between 1996 and 2009 in English and held by 814 libraries worldwide
This multicultural history of Americans should be of interest to students of American immigration, race and ethnicity.

Natives and strangers : Blacks, Indians, and immigrants in America by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
7 editions published between 1979 and 1990 in English and held by 781 libraries worldwide

The aliens; a history of ethnic minorities in America by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 658 libraries worldwide

Jews in the South by Leonard Dinnerstein( Book )
5 editions published between 1969 and 1973 in English and held by 646 libraries worldwide