Rabbi Dalin explodes the resurrected, widely accepted, yet bankrupt smearing of Pope Pius XII, whom Jewish survivors of the Holocaust considered "a righteous gentile." With devastating scholarship and unblinking honesty, he sets the record straight in a book that should shame haters of the pope, inspire conservative Christians, and sound a warning ...
Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations-Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events-suggest just how wide the gap has become in the fragile coalition that was formed during the Civil Rights movement of the ...
In Malamud's comic novel, two writers are at odds: one an angst-ridden Jewish novelist, the other a militant black man writing an anti-Semitic polemic.
Though the alliance between blacks and Jews was once the cornerstone of liberal politics, today there are those in each community who see their former ally as their most dangerous foe. In Jews and Blacks, West and Lerner explore some of the most pressing problems of contemporary America through the prism of the relationship between their two ...
The only book commercially available to publicly refute, point-by-point, the charges against Jews as purported by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Brackman presents a scholarly yet easy-to-understand response to the claims that Jews masterminded the African slave trade and other diabolical ...
Offering the theory that Hitler and Wittgenstein were in the same class at school, this book proposes that the latter was the specific target of Hitler's bile in "Mein Kampf", in which he describes a Jew at school, and that Hitler's beliefs about Jews came from the experience of meeting Wittgenstein at this time. It also argues that Wittgenstein, ...
The author of the acclaimed HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS presents damning evidence by which he intends to prove that the Roman Catholic clergy were willing supporters of the Holocaust. He then addresses the issue of how the Church can "repair" or make amends for the wrongs done in its name.
Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African-Americans, Hasia Diner shows how - in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their relative prosperity was no protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. It thus became in the Jewish American self-interest to support the black ...
By studying the way black and Jewish writers have represented one another in American literature from the 1960s to the 1990s, this work explores the complicated relationship between these two minority groups in American culture. Works by Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley and many other important figures are investigated.
Jewish activist Michael Lerner and the leading thinker on African American issues, Cornel West, open dialogue on the prevalent questions regarding the tenous relationship between Blacks and Jews. Through their discussions of today's commonalities and conflicts, they consider what it would take to reestablish the old alliance, and why this ...
Jonathan Kaufman paints a vivid, moving portrait of the relationship between blacks and Jews in recent decades--from the strong partnership forged during the civil rights movement of the 1960s to the angry war of words, recriminations, and highly charged confrontations making headlines today. Includes a new preface and epilogue by Kaufman.
Murray Friedman, an historian of American Jewish history and former vice-chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights, analyzes the corrosive arguments leveled against American Jews by African-Americans. Most importantly, he carefully deconstructs the assertion that Jews played an instrumental role in the slave trade and examines the historical ...
"The Judas Brief" challenges the fundamental Gospel concept that at least some leading Jews played a key role in having Jesus executed. Gary Greenberg provides a detailed examination of all Gospel accounts of hostile interaction between Jesus and the Jews, with special attention to the Jewish and Roman trials of Jesus. He then compares these ...
The real letters sent by a father to his four-year-old daughter during World War II. Barbara and her family were living in Holland when her parents were forced to separate because of their 'mixed' marraige--her father was German, her mother Jewish. Barbara's father moves to Amsterdam (coincidentally next to the house where Anne Frank and her ...
Allies during the Civil Rights movement, common enemies of hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, charter members of FDR's New Deal coalition, blacks and Jews ended the 1984 campaign divided and hostile. Kaufman's book traces the history of those relations and analyzes the reasons for the current rift.
An essay on Black-Jewish relations, primarily in the United States, by a professor of African American History who became embroiled in controversy over his classroom use of a book detailing the well- documented Jewish role in the Atlantic slave trade. The Jewish Onslaught discusses, among other things, the increasing attacks of Jewish ...
Richard Wagner's anti-Semitism considered in the context of his time, place, and aspirations rather than in relation to his later appropriation by the Nazis.
On the afternoon of August 19, 1991, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Lubavitch Hasidic movement headquartered in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, visited the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens to pray at the grave of his predecessor. A police car from the 71st Precinct accompanied him. On their ...
From the editor of Debating P.C. comes an impressive new anthology of essays and historical perspectives on the long, ambivalent, historically complex, and often volatile relationship between American Jews and African Americans. Contributors include James Baldwin, Cynthia Ozick, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Julius Lester, and others.
How do adult children of interracial parents - where one parent is Jewish and one is Black - think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay's "Black, Jewish, and Interracial". Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father, Azoulay blends historical, theoretical, and ...
Much has been written about the relationship between blacks and Jews in America. Some texts highlight the mutual struggle for social jusitce, whilst others depict mutual accusations of racism. This text portrays the full complexity of black and Jewish relations in the US, over the past 300 years.
They write, ""Yours in Struggle" happened because we were able to talk to each other in the fist place, despite our very different identities and backgrounds -- white Christian-raised Southerner, Afro-American, Ashkenazi Jew. Each of us speaks only for herself, and we do not necessarily agree with each other. Yet we believe our cooperation on this ...
Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In "Troubling the Waters", Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement - but ...
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