Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
ISBN-10
1512602582
ISBN-13
9781512602586
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2018-06-05
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Author
Marc Dollinger

Description

Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how, in a period best known for the rise of black antisemitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda - including the emancipation of Soviet Jews, the rise of Jewish day schools, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. Undermining widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance, Dollinger describes a new political consensus, based on identity politics, that drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism.

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