Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews

by Jack Salzman

Other authorsGretchen Sullivan Sorin (Editor), Adina Back
Paperback, 1992

Status

Available

Call number

305.896 SAL

Publication

George Braziller (1992), Paperback, 271 pages

Description

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.… (more)

Barcode

2511

Language

ISBN

0807612804 / 9780807612804
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