| Physical description |
viii, 438 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-422) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jack Salzman -- 1. The Curse of Ham: A Case of Rabbinic Racism? / David M. Goldenberg -- 2. The Medieval Background / William Chester Jordan -- 3. Jews in the Slave Trade / David Brion Davis -- 4. "The Law of the Land is the Law": Antebellum Jews, Slavery, and the Old South / Jason H. Silverman -- 5. Between Words and Deeds: Jews and Blacks in America, 1880-1935 / Hasia R. Diner -- 6. Blacks and Jews: The Struggle in the Cities / Jonathan Kaufman -- 7. Long-Distance Runners of the Civil Rights Movement: The Contribution of Jews to the NAACP and the National Urban League in the Early Twentieth Century / Nancy J. Weiss -- 8. Negotiating Coalition: Black and Jewish Civil Rights Agencies in the Twentieth Century / Cheryl Greenberg -- 9. Black-Jewish Universalism in the Era of Identity Politics / Clayborne Carson -- 10. Allies of a Different Sort: Jews and Blacks in the American Left / Paul Buhle and Robin D. G. Kelley. |
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11. The Need to Remember: Three Phases in Black and Jewish Educational Relations / Earl Lewis -- 12. African Americans and Jews in Hollywood: Antagonistic Allies / Thomas Cripps -- 13. Separate Paths: Blacks and Jews in the Twentieth-Century South / Deborah Dash Moore -- 14. Affirmative Action: Jewish Ideals, Jewish Interests / Jerome A. Chanes -- 15. Affirmative Action: African-American and Jewish Perspectives / Theodore M. Shaw -- 16. "Nation Time!": Black Nationalism, The Third World, and Jews / Waldo E. Martin, Jr. -- 17. African Americans and Israel / Gary E. Rubin -- 18. On Imagining Foes, Imagining Friendship / Patricia J. Williams -- 19. Blacks, Jews, and Gender: The History, Politics, and Cultural Anthropology of a Women's Dialogue Group / Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- 20. Blacks and Jews: A Personal Reflection / Michael Walzer -- 21. Walking the Tightrope: Some Personal Reflections on Blacks and Jews / Cornel West. |
| Summary |
As Salzman makes clear in his introduction, the purpose of this collection is not to offer quick fixes to the present crisis but to provide a clarifying historical framework from which lasting solutions may emerge. Where historical knowledge is lacking, rhetoric comes rushing in, and Salzman asserts that the true history of Black-Jewish relations remains largely untold. To communicate that history, the essays gathered here move from the common demonization of Blacks and Jews in the Middle Ages, to an accurate assessment of Jewish involvement in the slave trade; to the confluence of Black migration from the South and Jewish immigration from Europe into Northern cities between 1880 and 1935; to the meaningful alliance forged during the Civil Rights movement and the conflicts over Black Power and the struggle in the Middle East that effectively ended that alliance. The essays also provide reasoned discussion of such volatile issues as affirmative action, Zionism, Blacks and Jews in the American Left, educational relations between the two groups, and the real and perceived roles Hollywood has played in the current tensions. At a time when accusations come more readily than careful consideration, Struggles in the Promised Land offers a much-needed voice of reason and historical understanding. |
| Other author |
Salzman, Jack.
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West, Cornel.
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| Subject |
African Americans -- Relations with Jews.
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| ISBN |
019508828X (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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