| Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews Contributor(s): Back, Adina (Author), Salzman, Jack (Author), Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807612790 ISBN-13: 9780807612798 Publisher: George Braziller OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1992 Annotation: While no single volume can fully explain this issue, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past - and in so doing to better understand the present. Fifteen critical essays by leading historians, scholars, and political and religious figures of this century provide historical overviews of the relationships between African Americans and American Jews. They also represent the diverse attitudes within the two groups, and reflect the multiple voices that have themselves shaped these attitudes. A visual essay that follows links texts and images of more than one hundred works of art and artifacts, first seen in an exhibit at The Jewish Museum, to explore the historical "places" at which the paths of African Americans and American Jews have crossed in meaningful ways during this century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Religion | Judaism - General - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 91047955 |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 8.81" W x 10.57" (2.47 lbs) 271 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While no single volume can fully explain this issue, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past - and in so doing to better understand the present. Fifteen critical essays by leading historians, scholars, and political and religious figures of this century provide historical overviews of the relationships between African Americans and American Jews. They also represent the diverse attitudes within the two groups, and reflect the multiple voices that have themselves shaped these attitudes. A visual essay that follows links texts and images of more than one hundred works of art and artifacts, first seen in an exhibit at The Jewish Museum, to explore the historical places at which the paths of African Americans and American Jews have crossed in meaningful ways during this century. |