Blacks in the Jewish Mind : a Crisis of Liberalism.
Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1998.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews?. In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their histori. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814728901 0814728901 |