Black Power, Jewish Politics
Author | : Marc Dollinger |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781512602586 |
ISBN-13 | : 1512602582 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Download or read book Black Power, Jewish Politics written by Marc Dollinger and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.