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Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) Paperback – June 5, 2018

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Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how, in a period best known for the rise of black antisemitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda―including the emancipation of Soviet Jews, the rise of Jewish day schools, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. Undermining widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance, Dollinger describes a new political consensus, based on identity politics, that drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism.
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    Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
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    272 pages
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    English
  4. Publisher
    Brandeis University Press
  5. Publication date
    June 5, 2018
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1512602574
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1512602579
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“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, Indiana University, Bloomington and Shalom Hartman Institute of North America)

“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, Trinity College)

About the Author

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brandeis University Press; 1st edition (June 5, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1512602574
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1512602579
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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1.0 out of 5 stars “White” for Jews is recent vintage in many quarters
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Among Blacks who grew up in the rural South, so among a majority of US African-Americans at a time still within living memory, “white” was not standardly used for Jews. One only has to be aware of Louis Armstrong’s experience as a boy to understand why. He wore a Jewish star around his neck during his adult life not because he was Jewish, but because of the closeness he had as a child with a Southern Jewish family, by no means financially well-off, who were a stable, supportive presence in his life when he was just starting to develop his love for the instrument he, due to the unprecedented artistry of his playing, is so famously associated with. Through that relationship, he witnessed, and later wrote of, the impact of anti-semitism on the Jewish community. Southern Blacks weren’t blind. They could see that the skin color of American Jews was most commonly white. Furthermore, they were, in being speakers of English as a first language, as good at detecting shades of meaning as anyone, that of the term “white” included. Their usage reflected the fact that skin color was not a sufficient condition for the term’s use. For its meaning derived from prevailing cultural conditions. What would it say about what passes for scholarship today were this to come as news to those who claim to be well-informed about Black-Jewish relations in the United States? Does the usage of the term in the South not register on the consciousness of the ill-informed today because a Black American who grew up in the rural South would be far less likely to have had their views printed in newspapers, partly an effect of poverty, itself an effect of bigotry? What all too likely comes of an over-reliance on such “primary sources” is myth-making, a distortion of history that feeds intolerance and spreads false ideas that foster ignorant antagonisms. Even US Catholics were for much of the 20th century at risk of being marginalized by white Protestants to a certain extent as a result of not fully fitting the mainstream’s stereotype of what it is to be a white American. Is the fact that Italian immigrants had faced, along with Eastern European Jewish immigrants, widespread bigotry around the turn of the 20th century now considered esoteric? Who today, among those who study history, has the mistaken notion that a Sicilian immigrant would be standardly thought of as white at the time by society at large? These are facts worth remembering about the history of a society by members of that society, lest it end up with the shoddy state of public discourse currently on view in the US. Ignorance promotes division and helps line the pockets of opportunistic hate-mongers.
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