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What Went Wrong? - The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance (Paperback)
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What Went Wrong? - The Creation & Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance (Paperback)
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For nearly a century, blacks and Jews were allies in the struggle
for civil rights and equality in America. Sometimes risking their
lives, they waged battle in the courts, at lunch counters, and in
the academy, advancing the cause of all minorities. Their
historical partnership culminated in the landmark court decisions
and rights legislation of the 1960s - achievements of which both
groups are justly proud. But thereafter, black nationalist
activists diverted the movement for civil rights into a race
movement, distancing blacks from their traditional allies, and the
old civil rights coalition began to disintegrate. Today, relations
between blacks and Jews may be at an all-time low. Hardly a month
goes by without fresh outbreaks of hostility and conflict.
Controversial figures like Louis Farrakhan, Khalid Mohammed, and
Leonard Jeffries fuel Jewish fears about a rising tide of black
anti-Semitism - fears that were horribly confirmed for many Jews by
the anti-Jewish riots in Crown Heights in the summer of 1991 - and
blacks respond with bitter charges of Jewish hypocrisy and racism.
The facts of the historic civil rights alliance have grown dim for
both groups; indeed the very existence of the alliance has been
questioned by some black and white historians who claim that Jews
were never very important in the movement, while others argue that
their interest was a limited and ultimately selfish one. Now it is
even claimed that Jews financed the slave trade and conspired with
the mafia to promote racist stereotypes in Hollywood. What went
wrong between blacks and Jews? Historian Murray Friedman, also a
long-time civil rights activist, takes this question as the
starting point for the firstauthoritative history of black-Jewish
relations in America. Friedman's book traces this long and complex
relationship from colonial times to the present, engaging the
revisionists at every point. He argues that the future of this
important American partnership lies in the outcome of the struggle
currently under way between black radical nationalists and blacks
seeking coalition with Jews and other whites. "Memory", Friedman
concludes, "is the only force that can bring about a
reconciliation".
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