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Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement Black Power, Jewish Politics 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. It shows how, in a period best known for the rise of antisemitism in some parts of the Black community and the breakdown of the alliance between white Jews and Black Americans, Black Power activists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda—including the emancipation of Soviet Jews, the rise of Jewish Day Schools, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. Undermining widely held beliefs about the civil rights movement, Black Power, racism, Soviet Jewry, American Zionism, and the religious revival of the 1970s, Black Power, Jewish Politics describes a new political consensus based on identity politics that drew Black and Jewish Americans together and altered the course of American liberalism. In the midst of national reckoning on race, this revised edition extends the book’s thesis to the contemporary period, investigating the limits of white Jewish liberalism, the ways in which scholars have and have not addressed racial privilege in their work, and the dynamics around these themes in a much more diverse American Jewish community.

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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 * Susannah Heschel, author of Shofar * Marc 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. As Dollinger persuasively argues, Black Power, rather than being ‘bad for the Jews’ was ‘good for the Jews’ * Rebecca T. Alpert, Journal of American History * Marc Dollinger upends and revises our understanding of the relationship between Black and Jewish Americans in the mid-twentieth century. This is a thoroughly researched, well-written corrective to what he terms... ‘historiographic self-congratulation’.... His superb work opens the door to other equally revelatory histories, and also to the possibility of building more honest, open, and effective alliances in our own century * Marjorie N. Feld, AJS Review *

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 * Susannah Heschel, Shofar * Marc 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. As Dollinger persuasively argues, Black Power, rather than being ‘bad for the Jews’ was ‘good for the Jews’ * Rebecca T. Alpert, Journal of American History * Marc Dollinger upends and revises our understanding of the relationship between Black and Jewish Americans in the mid-twentieth century. This is a thoroughly researched, well-written corrective to what he terms... ‘historiographic self-congratulation’.... His superb work opens the door to other equally revelatory histories, and also to the possibility of building more honest, open, and effective alliances in our own century * Marjorie N. Feld, AJS Review *

"""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"" * Susannah Heschel, Shofar * ""Marc 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. As Dollinger persuasively argues, Black Power, rather than being ‘bad for the Jews’ was ‘good for the Jews’"" * Rebecca T. Alpert, Journal of American History * ""Marc Dollinger upends and revises our understanding of the relationship between Black and Jewish Americans in the mid-twentieth century. This is a thoroughly researched, well-written corrective to what he terms... ‘historiographic self-congratulation’.... His superb work opens the door to other equally revelatory histories, and also to the possibility of building more honest, open, and effective alliances in our own century"" * Marjorie N. Feld, American Jewish Studies Review *"

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Ilana Kaufman (Afterword by) Ilana Kaufman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jews of Color Initiative. Her work sits at the center of Jewish community, philanthropic strategy, racial equity, and justice, is anchored by the voices and experience of Jews of Color, and is focused on field building through grantmaking, research and field building, and community education. Marc Dollinger (Author) Marc Dollinger is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University and author of Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America.

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