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- catalog abstract "The riots in Crown Heights, New York. The fiery speeches of Khalid Muhammad. The controversial politics of Farrakhanism. The relationship between American Jews and African-Americans has made front-page headlines in the 1990s and has become one of the country's most provocative issues. The recent explosive events have provoked a new assessment of the many years of discord between these sometime allies, sometime enemies - and a return to the simple yet perplexing question: What is the fight really about? From Paul Berman, renowned writer and critically acclaimed editor of Debating PC, comes a stunning collection of nineteen essays by some of the foremost thinkers of our time - a groundbreaking volume that offers a spectrum of distinguished writing on the subject, exploding myths and finding moral absolutes, baring souls and distilling ideas with logic, passion, and candor. Several of the essays chosen for this collection are original works that appear here for the first time. And several are well-established classics, including the famous New York Times op-ed article by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James Baldwin's "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White," Norman Podhoretz's "My Negro Problem - and Ours," and Cynthia Ozick's "Literary Blacks and Jews." Both Podhoretz and Ozick have written, especially for this volume, new retrospective commentaries on their own classic essays. Bold meditations on the history of black-Jewish relations are offered by Andrew Hacker and Cornel West, as well as by Paul Berman in his essay "The Other and the Almost the Same," which was widely discussed when it came out in The New Yorker. There are passionate analyses by Shelby Steele, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Goldstein, Jim Sleeper, Joe Wood, bell hooks, and several others. The Civil Rights Movement, the rise of Black Power, Third World alliances, Israel and Zionism, affirmative action, neoconservatism, American slavery, racial segregation, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust - all these topics are woven into a brilliant and eloquent discussion of an issue that is shaping our time. In Blacks and Jews we can hear responsible voices, liberal and conservative alike, speaking from the intellect and from the heart about bigotry and prejudice in today's America, and about the hope for tolerance and democracy in the American future.".
- catalog contributor b5942662.
- catalog contributor b5942663.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "And several are well-established classics, including the famous New York Times op-ed article by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James Baldwin's "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White," Norman Podhoretz's "My Negro Problem - and Ours," and Cynthia Ozick's "Literary Blacks and Jews." Both Podhoretz and Ozick have written, especially for this volume, new retrospective commentaries on their own classic essays. Bold meditations on the history of black-Jewish relations are offered by Andrew Hacker and Cornel West, as well as by Paul Berman in his essay "The Other and the Almost the Same," which was widely discussed when it came out in The New Yorker. There are passionate analyses by Shelby Steele, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Goldstein, Jim Sleeper, Joe Wood, bell hooks, and several others. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "On Spiegelman's valentine and having a headache / Paul Berman -- The other and the almost the same / Paul Berman -- Negroes are anti-Semitic because they're anti-white / James Baldwin -- Literary Blacks and Jews, with afterword / Cynthia Ozick -- My Negro problem-- and ours, with postscript/ Norman Podhoretz -- The problem Negro and other tales / Joe Wood -- The politics of relations between African-Americans and Jews / Clayborne Carson -- On Black-Jewish relations / Cornel West -- Jewish racism, Black anti-semitism / Andrew Hacker -- The lives people live / Julius Lester -- Breaking our bond of shame / Shelby Steele -- The myth of the powerful Jew, with prologue / Ellen Willis -- The new anti-semitism : a geshrei / Richard Goldstein -- The uses of anti-semitism, with memoirs of an anti-anti-semite / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Keeping a legacy of shared struggle / Bell Hooks -- The battle for enlightenment at City College / Jim Sleeper -- Taking yes for an answer / Leon Wieseltier -- A semblance of safety / Derrick Bell -- The schisms of '67 ... / Michel Feher -- Group autonomy and narrative identity : Blacks and Jews / Laurence Thomas.".
- catalog description "The Civil Rights Movement, the rise of Black Power, Third World alliances, Israel and Zionism, affirmative action, neoconservatism, American slavery, racial segregation, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust - all these topics are woven into a brilliant and eloquent discussion of an issue that is shaping our time. In Blacks and Jews we can hear responsible voices, liberal and conservative alike, speaking from the intellect and from the heart about bigotry and prejudice in today's America, and about the hope for tolerance and democracy in the American future.".
- catalog description "The riots in Crown Heights, New York. The fiery speeches of Khalid Muhammad. The controversial politics of Farrakhanism. The relationship between American Jews and African-Americans has made front-page headlines in the 1990s and has become one of the country's most provocative issues. The recent explosive events have provoked a new assessment of the many years of discord between these sometime allies, sometime enemies - and a return to the simple yet perplexing question: What is the fight really about? From Paul Berman, renowned writer and critically acclaimed editor of Debating PC, comes a stunning collection of nineteen essays by some of the foremost thinkers of our time - a groundbreaking volume that offers a spectrum of distinguished writing on the subject, exploding myths and finding moral absolutes, baring souls and distilling ideas with logic, passion, and candor. Several of the essays chosen for this collection are original works that appear here for the first time. ".
- catalog extent "xiv, 303 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Blacks and Jews.".
- catalog identifier "0385311176".
- catalog isFormatOf "Blacks and Jews.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Delacorte Press,".
- catalog relation "Blacks and Jews.".
- catalog subject "973/.04924 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans Relations with Jews.".
- catalog subject "E185.615 .B5534 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "On Spiegelman's valentine and having a headache / Paul Berman -- The other and the almost the same / Paul Berman -- Negroes are anti-Semitic because they're anti-white / James Baldwin -- Literary Blacks and Jews, with afterword / Cynthia Ozick -- My Negro problem-- and ours, with postscript/ Norman Podhoretz -- The problem Negro and other tales / Joe Wood -- The politics of relations between African-Americans and Jews / Clayborne Carson -- On Black-Jewish relations / Cornel West -- Jewish racism, Black anti-semitism / Andrew Hacker -- The lives people live / Julius Lester -- Breaking our bond of shame / Shelby Steele -- The myth of the powerful Jew, with prologue / Ellen Willis -- The new anti-semitism : a geshrei / Richard Goldstein -- The uses of anti-semitism, with memoirs of an anti-anti-semite / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Keeping a legacy of shared struggle / Bell Hooks -- The battle for enlightenment at City College / Jim Sleeper -- Taking yes for an answer / Leon Wieseltier -- A semblance of safety / Derrick Bell -- The schisms of '67 ... / Michel Feher -- Group autonomy and narrative identity : Blacks and Jews / Laurence Thomas.".
- catalog title "Blacks and Jews : alliances and arguments / edited by Paul Berman.".
- catalog type "text".