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Article: Strangers in The Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America.(Book review)
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Strangers in The Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America, by Eric Sundquist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 662 pp. $35.00.
Attention to relations between Jews and Blacks has produced an extensive body of academic and popular literature, and Eric Sundquist has added an elegant and instructive analysis--indeed, it may be one of the most insightful books yet to appear. Aptly and with appropriate distance, he describes the peculiarly unique interactions between Jews and Blacks as "accidental allies in misfortune" (p. 29). I read Strangers in The Land as a person who is both Jewish and Black, and therefore have a personal as well as scholarly interest. In ...