Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
Organization:
The Oshman Family JCC
Category:
Political/Special Interest
Geographical Area:
San Jose
Start
Date:
10/3/2018
End Date:
10/3/2018
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
In his new book, Marc Dollinger 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. He shows how, in a period best known for the rise of black anti-Semitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance, black nationalists 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 black-Jewish alliance, Dollinger describes a new political consensus, based on identity politics, that drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism.
Marc Dollinger is the author of "Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America," and co-editor of "California Jews and American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader." He holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University.
"Dollinger's illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. Dollinger shows that the American Jewish turn toward issues of Jewish continuity owes a great debt to the Black Power movement and that Jewish leaders understood that early on. This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath." Shaul Magid, Indiana University, Bloomington and Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
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