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Article: African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict. Edited by V. P. Franklin, Nancy L. Grant, Harold M. Kletnick, and Genna Rae McNeil. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1998. Pp. x, 366. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1197-6.)
An addition to the growing literature on the subject of black-Jewish relations, this eclectic collection of thirteen essays grew out of a conference on "Blacks and Jews: An American Historical Perspective" at Washington University in St. Louis in December 1993. The volume's unremarkable thesis is that the history of black-Jewish relations was marked "by significant conflicts of interest ...