Bridges and boundaries

African Americans and American Jews

Author: Jack Salzman
Secondary Author: Adina Back
ISBN: 0807612804

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.

Publisher: George Braziller
Publish Date: 1992

Subjects: African Americans/ Relations with Jews, African Americans, Afro-Americans, Ethnic relations, Jews/ United States/ Politics and government, Jews, Politics and government, Race relations, Relations with Jews, United States, Religion / Judaism / General, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Jewish Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Race Relations (RARE))