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Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism (London, 1983); Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Social Construction
of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, NY, 1966).
7. All discussions about imagery fundamentally represent the perspective of the
elite, however splintered that elite might be. The communal rhetoric appeared in
newspapers, sermons, published literary works, and the like. By virtue of their appearance
in these formats, such statements should not be confused with the range of opinions
of "ordinary" people.
8. Diner, Promised Land, p. 113.
9. Diner, Promised Land, p. 69.
10. Diner, Promised Land, p. 151.
11. Melville Herskovitz, "What is Race?" American Mercury 2 (June 1924),
207-10.
12. Diner, Promised Land, pp. 190-91.
13. Ira Eisenstein and Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, "What is Torah?: A Cantata for
Unison Chorus and Piano" (New York: Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1942).
14. William Pickens, American Aesop (Boston, 1926), pp. 113-15.
15. Horace Mann Bond, "Negro Attitudes Toward Jews," Jewish Social Studies 27,
1 (January 1965), p. 4; E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Church in America (New York,
1964), pp. 15-20; Richard Wright, Black Boy (New York, 1945), pp. 53-54.
16. Shankman, Ambivalent Friends, p. 115.
17. Shankman, Ambivalent Friends, pp. 116.
18. Booker T. Washington and Robert Park, The Man Furthest Down (Garden
City, NY, 1912), p. 241.
19. Philip S. Foner, "Black-Jewish Relations in the Opening Years of the
Twentieth Century," Phylon 36, 4 (Winter 1975), 361.
20. Steven Bloom, "Interactions Between Blacks and Jews in New York City,
1900-1930, as Reflected in the Black Press" (Ph.D. dissertation, New York
University, 1973), p. 181.
21. Shankman, Ambivalent Friends, p. 122.
22. Shankman, Ambivalent Friends, pp. 126—28.
23. Seth Scheiner, Negro Mecca: A History of the Negro in New York City, 1865-1920
(New York, 1965), p. 139.