Bridges and Boundaries African Americans and American Jews

by Back, Adina; Salzman, Jack; Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan

• ISBN13: 9780807612804
• ISBN10: 0807612804
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-17
• Publisher: George Braziller Inc.

Summary

This book provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past--and in so doing to better understand the present. Fifteen critical essays by leading historians, scholars, and political and religious figures of this century provide historical overviews of the relationships between African Americans and American Jews.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(1)
Benjamin Hooks
Sponsor's Statement	8	(1)
Michael Miles
Director's Acknowledgments	9	(3)
Joan Rosenbaum
Foreword	12	(3)
James Farmer
Introduction	15	(2)
Jack Salzman
Parallels and Divergences: Assimilationist Strategies of Afro-American and Jewish Elites from 1910 to the Early 1930s	17	(19)
David Levering Lewis
Blacks and Jews in the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of SNCC	36	(14)
Clayborne Carson
Blacks and Jews: The Uncivil War	50	(20)
Taylor Branch
A Fear Beyond Escaping	70	(4)
Irving Howe
Anti-Negroism Among Jews	74	(5)
Louis Harap
Anti-Semitism Among Negroes	79	(7)
L. D. Reddick
What Happens to Them Happens to Me	86	(2)
Abraham J. Heschel
What Happens to them Happens to Me	88	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Candor About Negro-Jewish Relations	91	(8)
Kenneth B. Clark
Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism	99	(9)
Nathan Glazer
My Negro Problem---and Ours	108	(10)
Norman Podhoretz
Negroes and Jews---The two Nationalisms and the Bloc(ked) Plurality	118	(14)
Harold Cruse
Blacks and Jews: Different Kinds of Survival	132	(4)
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships Between Black and Jewish Women	136	(5)
Barbara Smith
A Conversation between Cornel West and Michael Lerner	141	(12)
Bridges and Boundaries: A Visual Essay	153	(92)
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Beth Klopott
Julie Reiss
Historical Chronology	245	(14)
Beth Klopott
Bibliography	259	(3)
Notes on the Authors	262	(2)
Lenders to the Exhibition	264	(2)
Committee of Endorsers	266	(2)
Acknowledgments	268	(2)
Donors to the Exhibition	270	(1)
Credit Lines	271