The end of the nineteenth century found Black and Jewish communities in America living side by side, both facing discrimination from the white Protestant majority. Conflict and shifting in power structures brought on feelings of racism and antisemitism between the two groups, yet the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust would unite the communities around an unlikely cause: Zionism.
Disclaimer: While Jews are a diverse, multi-racial people, in this video when we speak about the interactions between the Black community and the Jewish community we are speaking about Jews of European descent.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:43 Ashkenazi-black relations
01:14 American Antisemitism
01:33 African slave trade and racism
02:04 Discrimination against / interactions between Ashkenazi Jews and black people
03:06 Jews as white passing
03:31 Jewish organizational experience
03:57 Joint Jewish-black cooperation
04:39 Jewish-black divisions
05:28 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
06:22 Factors causing Antisemitism in black communities
06:46 The rise of Nazism and US fascism
07:12 The Holocaust as a turning point to join forces with the black community
07:42 Black support for Zionism
09:06 Outro
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
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Susannah Heschel
National Urban League
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