Blacks and Jews in the United States: History, Myths, and Realities (pt. 1)
23.01.2014
Speaker: Jerome Chanes
Date: November 3, 2005
Blacks and Jews in the United States: History, Myths, and Realities
This lecture develops a historical context for understanding Black-Jewish relations in America — why, indeed did American Jews speaerhead the civil-rights movement, and what were the factors that caused the alliance to rupture? — and, in analyzing the phenomenon of “Black anti-Semitism,” will explode some myths.
Jerome A. Chanes is Faculty Scholar at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, and is adjunct professor of Jewish Sociology at Yeshiva University and at Barnard College. He is the author of the award-winning A Dark Side of History: Anti-Semitism through the Ages; the monograph A Primer on the American Jewish Community, going into its third edition; A Portrait of the American Jewish Community; and of Anti-Semitism: A Reference Handbook.
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