Bridges and Boundaries African Americans and

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.

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

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Bridges and Boundaries African Americans and American Jews

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