LEADER 05843nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910814309303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612072215 010 $a1-282-07221-8 010 $a0-253-11022-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000243846 035 $a(EBL)257251 035 $a(OCoLC)475973059 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269560 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192075 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269560 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247604 035 $a(PQKB)10372637 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000351331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12107372 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000351331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10275800 035 $a(PQKB)10701052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC257251 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL257251 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10097299 035 $a(OCoLC)62697564 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000243846 100 $a20031017d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWe Jews and Blacks $ememoir with poems /$fWillis Barnstone 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBloomington, Ind. $cIndiana University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-253-21921-3 311 $a0-253-34419-0 327 $aCover; TOC; Acknowledgments; A Chat with the Reader; The Hell Face of Sacred Distinctions; The Plot; Jews and Blacks of Early Childhood; Swans over Manhattan; Anatole Broyard (1920-90), the Inventor; What Was a Jew?; Dad Grew Up in the Streets; Languages of the Jews; Spanish Jews; Jews and Blacks of Early Adolescence; "At the Red Sea," by Yusef Komunyakaa; Assimilation and Passing under the Shadow of War and Holocaust; Yehuda Maccabee and Hellenization of the Jews; Gnosticism and Other Heresies; A Summer Camp in Maine with the Scent of Palestine; Sammy Propp of the Black Shoes; Black People 327 $aLeah ScottMy Unseen Black Grand-Stepmother; Othello; Reading the Bible in Hebrew; Bar Mitzvah; "Othello's Rose," by Yosef Komunyakaa; Early Jewish Corruption and Bayard Rustin, the BlackNightingale; Early Corruption; Yeshua ben Yosef Passing as Jesus Christ; So Long, Sammy; Off to the Quakers; Bayard Rustin, the Black Nightingale Singing His People into theHeart of the Makers of the Underground Railroad; More Deadly Application Blanks; Jews and Blacks in College, and Freedom in Europe; Bowdoin College: The Jewish and Black Ghetto in Old LongfellowHall; A Letter to The Nation 327 $aComing Out of My Own Ghetto of SilencesOff to Europe, Where Old-Fashioned Bigotry Is Huge, yet Now WhoCares? Not Me; Changing Money on the Rue des Rosiers and Getting Married by theGrand Rabbi of Paris; Having Fun at Gunpoint in Crete; Working in Greece for the King; White Islands and Northern Monasteries on Huge Stalagmites; Thessaloniki, a City of Peoples; Greeks and Jews and Blacks and Russians; Jews, Greeks, and Romans in Alexandria; Cavafy and His Poem "Of the Jews (a.d. 50)"; Romaniot Jews in Byzantium; The Sephardim in Muslim Spain; Jews and Greeks in Thessaloniki 327 $aFacts on the SlaughterThessaloniki and Absence; Days and Nights with Odysseus on the Way to Holy Athos; The Madness of a Jew Trying to Marry in a Greek Orthodox Churchin Crete; A Black and White Illumination; Friendship in Tangier with a French Baroness Who Told Me I HadKilled Her Lord; "Sound Out Your Race Loud and Clear"; A Jewman in the U.S. Army; A Touch of Freedom; Fort Dix: "I'm Black and My Balls Are Made of Brass"; "Sound Out Your Race, Loud and Clear! Caucasian or Negra!"Yelled the White Sergeant in Segregated Georgia; Holy Communion of Bagels and Lox for Jewish Personnel 327 $aBlack Barbers Brought on Base to Cut Black Men's HairCaptain Hammond, Baritone, and the Children of the Pe?rigord; Mumbling about Race and Religion in China, Nigeria,Tuscaloosa, and Buenos Aires; Ma Ke, a Chinese Jew with Whom I Shared Suppers in Beijing; Olaudah Equiano Bouncing around the Globe as a Slave Sailor under aQuaker Captain Until He Settles Down in London as aDistinguished Writer and Abolitionist; "Some of us grow ashamed," by Yusef Komunyakaa; Yusef Komunyakaa, the Black Nightingale Singing on Paper with theRichness of a Sweet Potato (YK & WB); A Diversion Down to Argentina 327 $aSaying a Hebrew Prayer at My Brother's ChristianFuneral 330 $aA central theme of this memoir by poet and translator Willis Barnstone is that of labels -- names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, We Jews and Blacks wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. It is a dramatic, whimsical, and literary work that also contains a number of Barnstone's poems, which offer a second view of an event, a crystallization of his thinking, both sorrow 606 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aTranslators$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews 606 $aJews$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aBlacks$xRelations with Jews 606 $aPassing (Identity) 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 615 0$aPoets, American 615 0$aTranslators 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews. 615 0$aJews 615 0$aBlacks$xRelations with Jews. 615 0$aPassing (Identity) 676 $a811/.54 676 $aB 700 $aBarnstone$b Willis$f1927-$0488524 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814309303321 996 $aWe Jews and Blacks$93976125 997 $aUNINA