Eric Goldstein's " Southern Jews, Whiteness and Jim Crow" and Clive Webb's "Black-Jewish Relations"2/2/2017 Group 1
A Do you think the racism of white Jews in the early 1900s would have been different if they were aware of the future implications of anti-semitism in the Holocaust just a few decades later? Looking not to be a minority or to group selves with majority. For survival. Did not want to be oppressed like african americans. Post holocaust Blacks and Jews found a way to connect, shared experiences or parallel, Hard to answer. Every family or community ws so different and so differently affected. Difference in group experiences B How did the white Jews who openly discriminated against African Americans justify their actions when they often were at the hand of discrimination themselves? Perspective of survival. Preserve identity and Jewish selfhood even if it wasn’t the right thing to do. Group 2 A How did the fact that Jews held slaves influence their views on the civil rights movement? Jews held slaves, thereby grouped into White category. B What are some examples of southern jews speaking out against segregation and racism? Rabbis (see Goldstein). Northern Jewish activists -- and they were easy targets for white supremacists terror. Visibility American Jewish Committee spoke out. Other Jewish Federations in the South denounced the northern orgs because they feared for their safety. Group 3 A How did race relations changed between Jews and Blacks after Blacks were given rights in the south? (post civil rights movement?) B How has the relationship changed between the two minority groups in the South? Group 4 A Where do you draw the line between self preservation of the Jewish identity and attempting to relate to other minorities in the South? Hard to understand how Jews had slaves when they had a history of being enslaved. Difference between northern and southern Jews and how much effort they were going to put into ending discrimination. Northerners less fearful, more prominent. B were the African Americans and Jews in the south at the time fully aware of the persecution that occurred to both groups separately and how did this affect their treatment of one another? Things we learned: Jews were given all civic priv of whiteness but excluded from social events where their status might effect white racial integrity and purity
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