Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition by Marc Dollinger New Year Klingenstein argues that the singular

Klingenstein argues that the singular Jewish presence of Lionel Trilling shaped the minds and inspired the careers of Jewish intellectuals as different as Cynthia Ozick

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Originally published between 1944 and 1953

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Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition by Marc Dollinger New Year Klingenstein argues that the singularHighlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movementBlack 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