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“Reform Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Boston’s Temple Israel, himself a member of President Truman’s 1948 Committee on Civil Rights and an activist from the 1950s who supported congregants jailed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi, entered the new era of Black-Jewish relations with strong support for Black nationalism. “The positive aspect of black power,” he argued, “is its search for ethnic identity. This, we Jews of all peoples should be able to understand and approve. The American Negro today is in this respect retracing precisely the experience of American Jews a generation or two ago.”46”
― Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition
― Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition
“an August 1963 newsletter to his constituents, Polier paralleled the family experiences of African Americans in the white-dominated United States with systemic Ashkenazi discrimination against Jews of Color in Israel.”
― Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition
― Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition
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