Tauber Institute Micro-Grants for Social Justice

A Select Reading List

Addison, Bentley. "Arming Synagogues Will Make Them Less Safe - For Black Jews. Stop Erasing Us." , November 5, 2018. https://forward.com/opinion/413590/arming-synagogues-will-make-them-less- safe-for-black-jews-stop-erasing-us/ Azoulay, Katya Gibel. "Jewishness after Mount Sinai: Jews, Blacks and the (Multi)racial Category." Identities: "Race Places": Changing Locations of Jewish Identities 8, no. 2 (2001): 211-46. Baldwin, James. "The Harlem Ghetto: Winter 1948: The Vicious Cycle of Frustration and Prejudice." Commentary (February 1948): 165-170. Baldwin, James. "Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White: Why Negroes are Anti-Semitic" New York Times. Apr 9, 1967. Baldwin, James. "On Being White … And Other Lies." Essence Magazine. 1984. Baldwin, James. "Blacks and Jews" Lecture at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Reprinted in The Black Scholar 19, no. 6 (1988): 3-15. Barnstone, Willis. We Jews and Blacks. Memoirs with Poems. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Ben-Ur, Aviva. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World: 1651-1825. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Ben-Ur, Aviva "Relative Property: Close-Kin Ownership in American Slave Societies." New West India Guide Vol. 89 Issue 1-2 (2015). Ben-Ur, Aviva. "A Matriarchal Matter: Slavery, Conversion, and Upward Mobility in Colonial Suriname." In Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800. Ed. Richard L. Kagan and Phillip D. Morgan. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2009. Berman, Paul. Blacks and Jews: Alliances and Arguments. New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. Brettschneider, Marla. The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives. SUNY Press, 2012. Brettschneider, Marla, "Jamaica Kincaid: and the Diasporic Condition in Jewish Political Thinking" (August 9, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1907391 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1907391. Brodkin, Karen. How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Burton, Nylah. "As a Black Jew, I'm Begging You: Don't Arm Your Synagogue." Alma. November 6, 2018. https://www.heyalma.com/as-a-black-jew-im-begging-you- dont-arm-your-synagogue/ Caplan, Marc. "Yiddish Exceptionalism: Yiddish, Race, and in Opatoshu's 'Lintsheray" in In Geveb. June 21, 2016. https://ingeveb.org/articles/yiddish- exceptionalism-lynching-race-and-racism-in-opatoshus-lintsheray Casteel, Sarah Phillips. Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Davis, Aviva. "Why You Need To Care About Black Lives Matter. A Young Jew of Color Speaks to White Jews." My Jewish Learning. June 2, 2020.

1 https://www.myjewishlearning.com/jewish-and/why-you-need-to-care-about- black-lives- matter/?fbclid=IwAR2qmuZCVp6Qr1ctywm30GT164gfHFx9yK52emlZvXrzfoca CV_ytDqX1sc. [Brandeis aluma] Davis, Natalie Zemon. "David Nassy's "Furlough" and the Slave Mattheus." In New Essays in American Jewish History (2010): 79-93. Diner, Hasia R. "In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935." Contributions in American History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977. Dollinger, Marc. Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s. Waltham: Press. 2018. Du Bois, W.E.B. 1949. "The Negro and The Warsaw Ghetto." (1949). The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader, ed. Eric J. Sundquist, 469 - 473. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. If It Wasn't For the Women: Black Women's Experiences and Womanist Culture in Church and Community. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2001. Glazer, Nathan. "Jews and Blacks: What Happened to the Grand Alliance?" Jews in Black Perspectives: A Dialogue. Ed. Joseph R. Washington, Jr. 105-112. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. Goldstein, Eric. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Princeton and Oxford: Press, 2016. Gordon, Jane Anna. "What Should Blacks Think When Jews Choose Whiteness? An Ode to Baldwin" Critical Philosophy of Race. Vol. 3, Issue 2, (2015): 227-258. Gordon, Jane Anna. Why They Couldn't Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict over Community Control in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-1971. New York: Routledge, 2001. Gordon, Lewis R. "Rarely Kosher: Studying Jews of Color in North America." American Jewish History 100, no. 1 (2016): 105-16. Greenberg, Charyl Lynn. Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relationship in the American Century. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006. Halpern, Ben. Jews and Blacks: The Classic American Minorities. New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. Harrison-Kahan, Lori. The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black- Jewish Imaginary. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2011. Harrison-Kahan, Lori. "Passing for White, Passing for Jewish: Mixed Race Identity in Danzy Senna and Rebecca Walker." Melus. Vol. 30, Issue 1 (2005): 9-48. Hart, Mitchel B. Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880–1940, (Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought) Brandeis University Press, 2011. Heschel, Abraham Joshua. : Essential Writings. Selected and With an Introduction by Susannah Heschel. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011. Heschel, Susannah. "Reading Cynthia Baker's Jew with James Baldwin" Marginalia. July 5, 2017. Heschel, Susannah. "A Different Kind of Theo-Politics: Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Prophets and the Civil Rights Movement." Journal of Political Theology. Vol. 1, Issue 1-2: Winter 2020, 23-42. hooks, bell. "Keeping a Legacy of Shared Struggle" in Killing Rage: Ending Racism, 204-214. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996.

2 Idelson-Shein, Iris. Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race during the Long Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie. The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002. Kirzane, Jessica. "'This is How a Generation Grows': Lynching as a Site of Ethical Loss in Opatoshu's' Lintsheray.'" in In Geveb. June 21, 2016. https://ingeveb.org/articles/this-is-how-a-generation-grows-lynching-as-a-site- of-ethical-loss-in-opatoshus-lintsheray. Lee, Jennifer. Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America. Cambridge, Mass.: Press, 2002. Lester, Julius. Interview with James Baldwin, ca. 1986. WFCR Radio Broadcast Collection (MS 741). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, Amherst, Massachusetts. Lester, Julius. Lovesong: Becoming a Jew. Henry Holt & Co., 1988. MaNishtana, Ariel Samson. Freelance Rabbi. New York: Multikosheral Press, 2018. McBride, James. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. Melnick, Jeffrey. "Rattling the Cage of Black-Jewish Relations." In "Jewishness" and the World of "Difference" in the United States. Ed. Marc Lee Raphael, 50-64. Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary, 2001. Meyer, Adam. Black-Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction. Lanham, Maryland, and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002. Newton, Adam Zachary. Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth Century America. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Newton, Adam Zachary. "Stains, Plots, and the Neighbor Thing: Jews, Blacks, and Philip Roth's Readers." In Race, Color, Identity. Ed. Efraim Sicher. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013, 77-95. Opatoshu, Joseph. "Lintsheray [Lynching]." Trans. Jessica Kirzane. In Geveb, June 21, 2016. https://ingeveb.org/articles/af-der-shvel-un-in-der-fremd-a-feuilleton-on- yiddish-race-and-the-american-literary-imagination Rogin, Michael. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Roitman, Jessica. "Mediating Multiculturalism: Jews, Blacks, and Curacao, 1825-1970." In The Sephardic Atlantic; Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives. Eds. Sina Rauschenbach, Jonathan Schorsch. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Salzman, Jack, Adina Back, and Gretchen Sullivan Sorin. Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews. New York: George Braziller, 1992. Salzman, Jack and Corel West, ed. Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Senna, Danzy. Caucasia. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. Smith. Anna Deavere. Fires in the Mirror. New York: Anchor, 1993. Schorch, Jonathan. Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

3 Twitty, Michael W. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. Amistad, 2018. Walker, Rebecca. Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Webb, Clive. The Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2001. Whitman, James Q. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Wiesen, S. Jonathan. "American Lynching in the Nazi Imagination: Race and Extra- Legal Violence in 1930s Germany." German History vol. 36, no. 1 (2018): 38-59. Yabor, Kendra. "Patterns of Disruption: and Islam in Black American Life." Ph.D. dissertation. Brandeis University, 2020. Young, Jennifer. "Beyond the Color Line: Jews, Blacks, and the American Racial Imagination." In Geveb. ingeveb.org/articles/beyond-the-color-line-jews-blacks- and the american-racial-imaginaton Zaborowska, Magdalena J. 2015. "'Chained Together in Time and Space': W.E.B. Du Bois Looks at the Warsaw Ghetto; James Baldwin Regards The Harlem Ghetto." Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. Vol 4, Issue 2 (2015): 97-114.

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