Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict

by Alan Helmreich

Black-Jewish relations--at the symbolic level--are in shambles, writes Cornel West. One has only to recall the 1991 Crown Heights tragedy and its aftermath to recognize to what extent Black-Jewish relations have deteriorated. The emergence of frequently anti-Semitic black demagogues like Louis Farrakhan and Leonard Jeffries and the Jewish community's turn to neo-conservatism have only made matters worse. Mistrust, ambivalence, and other negative feelings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275956660
• ISBN13: 9780275956660
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"