Studies indicate that respondents experiencing equal-status contact across ethnic lines are more likely to hold tolerant attitudes toward minorities than those not having been exposed to such interaction. This paper extends the research on this proposition in three ways. We examine: (1) responses of blacks reporting equal-status contact with Jews; (2) effects of equal-status contact compared with other types of reported associations with Jews such as perceived economic mistreatment; and (3) possible trends in the shifting effects of both types of reported contact over time. The findings indicate strong support for the contact hypothesis, particularly when equal-status contact is intimate and occurs in a noninstitutional setting. On the other hand, they show that perceived economic mistreatment is strongly related to heightened antipathy toward Jews. When the two types of reported contacts are compared for their predictive effects, the economic variable exerts by far the greater influence of the two. Last, we examine trends in the changing effects of these two types of reported contact on anti-Semitism. We observed two patterns. First, the younger generation of blacks exhibits a weaker inverse relationship between intimate, equal-status contact and anti-Semitism than older cohorts. Second, the positive association between perceived economic mistreatment and the dependent variable increases with each younger generation. These findings suggest that there are generational changes taking place in black-white relations. For at least 25 years, American sociologists have shown and stirred interest in the contact hypothesis (Deutsch and Collins; Ford, a, b; Williams). Examined in a number of different settings, findings of many studies indicate that respondents having equal-status contact across ethnic lines are more likely to hold tolerant attitudes toward minorities than those not having such contact. The present investigation reexamines this hypothesis from three neglected perspectives: (1) we reexamine the contact hypothesis, focusing on social and economic contact between blacks and Jews in the study of black anti-Semitism; (2) we examine the comparative effects of equal-status contact and the respondent's perceived economic mistreatment; and (3) we examine the shifting effects of the above two forms of contact over time. To date, most research on the contact hypothesis has focused on members of the dominant population. Few studies have examined this proposition from the perspective of minorities. One notable exception, however, is the study by Works *We gratefully acknowledge the constructive comments made on earlier versions of the paper by Marion Dearman, Norman Friedman, Gene N. Levine, James Yu, and anonymous reviewers for Social Forces.