Primary Format: Cloth | |
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ISBN: | 9781512602562 |
Published: | 06/05/2018 |
Pages: | 272 |
Size: | 6 x 9 in. |
Subject(s): | Jewish Studies History |
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
Marc Dollinger
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"This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath."
Shaul Magid, Indiana University - Bloomington
Dollinger’s illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. Dollinger shows that the American Jewish turn toward issues of Jewish continuity owes a great debt to the Black Power movement and that Jewish leaders understood that early on. This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath.
—Shaul Magid
Dollinger’s book highlights Jewish leaders during the twentieth century who understood and applauded African American separatism and militancy, and then turns to the Jewish young people who embraced Black Power’s community-building possibilities. This book offers exciting new directions for American Jewish scholarship and helps reframe our understanding of Jewish engagement with African Americans, civil rights, and American Identity.
—Cheryl Greenberg
Black Power, Jewish Politics is essential reading to anyone interested in the history of Jewish Americans, Black/Jewish relations, civil rights, and twentieth-century politics, as well as to contemporary political activists.
—American Jewish History
MARC DOLLINGER is the author of Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America, and co-editor of California Jews and American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader. He holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University.