LEADER 03483nam 22005895 450 001 996588063103316 005 20221031204113.0 010 $a0-8147-2890-1 010 $a0-585-31875-1 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814728901 035 $a(CKB)111004368613108 035 $a(EBL)865468 035 $a(OCoLC)782877941 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112993 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146058 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112993 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10098495 035 $a(PQKB)11714153 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865468 035 $a(OCoLC)45732544 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10810 035 $a(DE-B1597)548287 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814728901 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368613108 100 $a20200623h19981998 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlacks in the Jewish mind $ea crisis of liberalism /$fSeth Forman 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[1998] 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-2681-X 311 $a0-8147-2680-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-264) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Race Relations and the Invisible Jew --$t1. The Liberal Jew, the Southern Jew, and Desegregation in the South, 1945-1964 --$t2. Jews and Racial Integration in the North, 1945-1966 --$t3. The New York Intellectuals and Their "Negro Problem," 1945-1966 --$t4. The Unbearable "Whiteness" of Being Jewish --$t5. The Jew as Middleman --$tConclusion. Blacks and Jews in American Popular Culture --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aSince the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews? In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their historic definition of themselves as victims, has caused them to behave in ways that were defined as good for Blacks, but which in essence were contrary to Jewish interests. They have not been able to dissociate their needs--religious, spiritual, communal, political--from those of African Americans, and have therefore acted in ways which have threatened their own cultural vitality. Avoiding the focus on Black victimization and white racism that often infuses work on Blacks and Jews, Forman emphasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma. 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Jews. 676 $a305.896/073 700 $aForman$b Seth$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01214467 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996588063103316 996 $aBlacks in the Jewish Mind$92804367 997 $aUNISA