Author : Abraham Melamed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135789835
This book traces the development of the image of the Black as 'other' in the history of Jewish cultures, from the first formulations in Biblical literature to early modern times.
Author : Marc Dollinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 147982688X
"Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an additional chapter connecting the book's themes to the national reckoning on race, and a foreword by Jews of Color Initiative founder Ilana Kaufman that all reflect on Blacks, Jews, race, white supremacy, and the civil rights movement"--
Author : Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780933121409
Dr. Ben destroys the myth of a "white Jewish race" and the bigotry that has denied the existence of an African Jewish culture. He establishes the legitimacy of contemporary Black Jewish culture in Africa and the diaspora and predates its origin before ancient Nile Valley civilizations.
Author : Aviva Brown
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781733596725
Author : Bruce D. Haynes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1479811238
Explores the full diversity of Black Jews, including bi-racial Jews of both matrilineal and patrilineal descent; adoptees; black converts to Judaism; and Black Hebrews and Israelites, who trace their Jewish roots to Africa and challenge the dominant western paradigm of Jews as white and of European descent. The book showcases the lives of Black Jews, demonstrating that racial ascription has been shaping Jewish selfhood for centuries. It reassesses the boundaries between race and ethnicity, offering insight into how ethnicity can be understood only in relation to racialization and the one-drop rule. Within this context, Black Jewish individuals strive to assert their dual identities and find acceptance within their communities. Putting to rest the notion that Jews are white and the Black Jews are therefore a contradiction, the volume argues that we cannot pigeonhole Black Hebrews and Israelites as exotic, militant, and nationalistic sects outside the boundaries of mainstream Jewish thought and community life. it spurs us to consider the significance of the growing population of self-identified Black Jews and its implications for the future of American Jewry.
Author : Edward J. Blum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807837377
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations--to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama.
Author : Edith Bruder
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1527523454
The contemporary phenomenon of people’s attraction to Judaism around the world is remarkable. Additionally, millions of people who are not of Jewish descent are increasingly identifying themselves as Jews or are converting. In this volume, scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines explore multiple sources and meanings of this new shaping of modern Jewish identities in Africa, the United States, and India.
Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316395340
This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.
Author : Zion Zohar
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0814797067
Sephardic Jews have contributed some of the most important Jewish philosophers, poets, biblical commentators, Talmudic and Halachic scholars, and scientists, and have had a significant impact on the development of Jewish mysticism. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry brings together original work from the world's leading scholars to present a deep introductory overview of their history and culture over the past 1500 years.
Author : Yvonne Patricia Chireau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195112571
This is an exploration of the interaction between African American religions and Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw, and black-Jewish relations need the religious roots of their problem illuminated.
