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![]() The rise of Herzlian Zionism added a new global dimension to this ambivalence. But fusing envy with emulation and antagonism with admiration, they simultaneously projected a negative mirror image of Jews as a pariah people, stripped of divine favor and guilty of exploiting the blacks who patronized Jewish merchants in the South as well as the North.(1) Identifying with the Bible's Chosen People, African Americans also held up modern-day Jews as a model of economic success, educational attainment, and group solidarity. Since long before the Depression Era and World War II, African American attitudes toward Jews had been a study in ambivalence. "The German Hate," editorial, Baltimore Afro-American, 16 January 1937 ![]() Hitler is a European Ku Kluxer-Hitler's Ku Kluxism is storing up for Germany mountains of hate that will deluge the Teutons for centuries. Germany is persecuting Jews, Catholics, and Negroes. MLA style: "Just Another Klansman?." The Free Library.
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