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

by Marc Dollinger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512602574
• ISBN13: 9781512602579
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"