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Melnick, Jeffrey. "Ancestors and Relatives: The Uncanny Relationship of African Americans and Jews," History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University, September 1994.
The starting point of this study is the idea that “Black-Jewish relations” is a rhetorical field located inside the established American system of radical politics, and not a concrete place or exclusive series of events. To make this case, “Ancestors and Relatives” presents two related inquiries. The first is a detailed reading of the trial and lynching of Leo Frank, an affair which led to an abundance of theorizing about the relative status of African Americans and Jews. The interpretation offered here is that the case should be understood as providing conclusive early evidence of the deep mutual mistrust which according to most accounts did not mar intergroup activity until the 1960s. The second case is that of the massive Jewish involvement in African American and American popular music.
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