Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

by Eric J. Sundquist

Book Overview

In a culture deeply divided along ethnic lines, the idea that the relationship between blacks and Jews was once thought special--indeed, critical to the cause of civil rights--might seem strange. Yet the importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. It is this record, written across the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674030699
• ISBN13: 9780674030695
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

David Green's harangue has little to do with the book

Reading David Green, one of those self-confessed Jews, who feel obligated to trash Jews, Jewish culture, and Israel at every opportunity, my thought is that his unqualified rage and nasty vituperation have less to do with the book itself and its massive achievement than with Mr. Green's desire for a soapbox on which to proclaim his self-righteousness. He claims to have studied the Arab-Israeli conflict intensively for 9 years, but that's not what this book is about, and the problems between blacks and Jews have very little to do with that part of the world.