"Racism can only be defeated by standing together, no matter what, like my own hero, Sigismund Danielewicz:"

We completely agree there.

Nazis thought Jews were a race, but antisemitism is much older than the idea of race, and the US never defined Jews as a race.

I hadn't considered the idea that modern hate crimes are lynchings. I'll ponder that. But I do know that if you look up the history of lynchings, you'll only find one Jew during the lynching heyday.

The Jewish civil rights workers were murdered for the same reason white people like Viola Liuzzo and James Reeb were: they were working to end segregation.

Your point about your parents is about social rights, not legal ones.

Can you tell me when Jews were called a race on the Census? I don't see them on this official list of categories since the beginning of the census: https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/race/MREAD_1790_2010.html