Bridges and boundaries : African Americans and American Jews / edited by Jack Salzman with Adina Back and Gretchen Sullivan Sorin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salzman, Jack.

Back, Adina.

Sorin, Gretchen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Jews.

African Americans.

Jews--United States--Politics and government.

Jews.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : George Braziller, 1992.

Summary:

While no single volume can fully explain this issue, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews 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. They also represent the diverse attitudes within the two groups, and reflect the multiple voices that have themselves shaped these attitudes. A visual essay that follows links texts and images of more than one hundred works of art and artifacts, first seen in an exhibit at The Jewish Museum, to explore the historical "places" at which the paths of African Americans and American Jews have crossed in meaningful ways during this century.

Notes:

"George Braziller in association with the Jewish Museum."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0807612790 :

0807612804 :

OCLC:

25131474