Black-jewish Relations

by Cook, Samuel DuBois

• ISBN13: 9781577360827
• ISBN10: 1577360826
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-30
• Publisher: Providence House Pub

Summary

Believing that the healing of broken community between Blacks and Jews is "a moral necessity, humanistic imperative, and divine command", Samuel DuBois Cook convened a group of African-Americans and Jewish-Americans on January 24, 1989, at Dillard University in New Orleans. There a commitment was made to hold a National Conference on Black-Jewish Relations in the spring of 1989. The speeches and essays in Black-Jewish Relations/Dillard University National Conference Papers were presented at the 1989-1997 conferences by such luminaries as Kenneth B. Clark, Albert Vorspan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Abraham H. Foxman, C. Eric Lincoln, David Saperstein, Gardner C. Taylor, and Sheldon Zimmerman, and they represent the stylistic and intellectual richness and variety of the conference participants.