Imagining each other : Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature / Ethan Goffman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.

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Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Monologues and Dialogues -- Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism -- Jewish Assimilationism -- Ambivalent Estrangements -- Burning Bridges -- Jewish Backlash -- Aftermaths -- A New Dispensation -- Fragmentation and Multiculturalism -- Parallels and Paralysis -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Matter.

Ch. 2 (p. 25-48), "Black (E)Masculinity and Anti-Semitism", discusses Black stereotypes of Jews, who were largely identified with Whites, as oppressors. States that antisemitism is linked to Black self-hatred. Notes that stereotypes of Jews in Black literature were less acceptable than those of Blacks in Jewish literature. Ch. 5 (p. 91-110), "Burning Bridges: Black Nationalism and Anti-Semitism", shows how, in the late 1960s, questioning of liberal assumptions about U.S. society led to Black nationalists' viewing Jews as paternalistic, self-interested, and largely responsible for oppression of Blacks. Black nationalist literature, e.g. that of LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), was rife with antisemitic stereotypes. After the 1960s a hybrid African-American literature developed, more differentiated in regard to Jews. Ch. 6 (p. 111-141), "Jewish Backlash", presents Saul Bellow's "Mr. Sammler's Planet" (1970) and Bernard Malamud's "The Tenants" (1971) as Jewish reactions to threats raised by the Black Arts Movement and Black nationalists. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

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