Black Power Jewish Politics Reinventing The Alliance In The 1960s Marc Dollinger by Marc Dollinger 9781512602562, 1512602566 instant download after payment.

In this provocative critique, 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 anti-Semitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda and express it in more visible forms of Jewish identity including the emancipation of Soviet Jews, the development of a new form of American Zionism, the opening of hundreds of Jewish day schools, and the creation of revitalized worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy.
This study of postwar American Jewish life challenges much of the historiography describing the motivations for and limits on Jewish involvement in various social protest movements, as well as the accepted wisdom on the origins and nature of the Jewish turn inward; in the process, it undermines commonly held beliefs about the nature of the black-Jewish alliance and the course of American Jewish liberalism since the mid-1960s. Dollinger argues that a new political consensus emerged at a moment of great intergroup conflict, drawing blacks and Jews together under the identity-politics banner even as their alliance in the civil rights movement inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King became fractured.
Review
"Black Power, Jewish Politics is essential reading to anyone interested in the history of Jewish Americans, Black/Jewish relations, civil rights, and twentieth-century politics, as well as to contemporary political activists."--American Jewish History
"This book offers exciting new directions for American Jewish scholarship and helps reframe our understanding of Jewish engagement with African Americans, civil rights, and American identity."
--Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College
"Dollinger's illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. . . . This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath."
--Shaul Magid, Indiana University, Bloomington
"Dollinger's well-written and provocative work provides an innovative interpretation of the mythic story of the alliance between Jews and blacks forged over the twentieth century and rent asunder in the post-civil rights era as a result of the rise of black power."--Journal of American History
"Dollinger offers a highly detailed, engrossing depiction of the responses of major Jewish organizations to the Civil Rights Movement and to the varied government and public policy understandings of racism and proposals for remediation. . . . [By] examining the positions of major Jewish organizations, this book reconfigures the standard narrative in crucial ways and makes an important contribution to Jewish cultural and political history. . . . Dollinger has reoriented the field of Black-Jewish relations in crucial ways and changed the way we think about American Jewish history in the post-World War II era. This is an important book and an exciting book."--Shofar
About the Author
MARC DOLLINGER is the author of Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America, and co-editor of California Jews and American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader. He holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University.