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| Acknowledgments | xiii | |
| Verse 1 | A Chat with the Reader | 1 |
| The Hell Face of Sacred Distinctions | 3 | |
| The Plot | 6 | |
| Verse 2 | Jews and Blacks of Early Childhood | 7 |
| Swans over Manhattan | 9 | |
| Anatole Broyard (1920-90), the Inventor | 12 | |
| What Was a Jew? | 14 | |
| Dad Grew Up in the Streets | 15 | |
| Languages of the Jews | 18 | |
| Spanish Jews | 21 | |
| Verse 3 | Jews and Blacks of Early Adolescence | 25 |
| "At the Red Sea," by Yusef Komunyakaa | 27 | |
| Assimilation and Passing under the Shadow of War and Holocaust | 29 | |
| Yehuda Maccabee and Hellenization of the Jews | 33 | |
| Gnosticism and Other Heresies | 35 | |
| A Summer Camp in Maine with the Scent of Palestine | 36 | |
| Sammy Propp of the Black Shoes | 38 | |
| Black People | 43 | |
| Leah Scott | 47 | |
| My Unseen Black Grand-Stepmother | 51 | |
| Othello | 52 | |
| Reading the Bible in Hebrew | 59 | |
| Bar Mitzvah | 60 | |
| "Othello's Rose," by Yosef Komunyakaa | 63 | |
| Verse 4 | Early Jewish Corruption and Bayard Rustin, the Black Nightingale | 65 |
| Early Corruption | 67 | |
| Yeshua ben Yosef Passing as Jesus Christ | 69 | |
| So Long, Sammy | 74 | |
| Off to the Quakers | 75 | |
| Bayard Rustin, the Black Nightingale Singing His People into the Heart of the Makers of the Underground Railroad | 75 | |
| More Deadly Application Blanks | 83 | |
| Verse 5 | Jews and Blacks in College, and Freedom in Europe | 87 |
| Bowdoin College: The Jewish and Black Ghetto in Old Longfellow Hall | 89 | |
| A Letter to The Nation | 96 | |
| Coming Out of My Own Ghetto of Silences | 99 | |
| Off to Europe, Where Old-Fashioned Bigotry Is Huge, yet Now Who Cares? Not Me | 100 | |
| Changing Money on the Rue des Rosiers and Getting Married by the Grand Rabbi of Paris | 109 | |
| Verse 6 | Having Fun at Gunpoint in Crete | 117 |
| Working in Greece for the King | 119 | |
| White Islands and Northern Monasteries on Huge Stalagmites | 126 | |
| Thessaloniki, a City of Peoples | 128 | |
| Greeks and Jews and Blacks and Russians | 130 | |
| Jews, Greeks, and Romans in Alexandria | 132 | |
| Cavafy and His Poem "Of the Jews (A.D. 50)" | 133 | |
| Romaniot Jews in Byzantium | 135 | |
| The Sephardim in Muslim Spain | 135 | |
| Jews and Greeks in Thessaloniki | 138 | |
| Facts on the Slaughter | 140 | |
| Thessaloniki and Absence | 143 | |
| Days and Nights with Odysseus on the Way to Holy Athos | 144 | |
| The Madness of a Jew Trying to Marry in a Greek Orthodox Church in Crete | 152 | |
| Verse 7 | A Black and White Illumination | 159 |
| Friendship in Tangier with a French Baroness Who Told Me I Had Killed Her Lord | 161 | |
| Verse 8 | "Sound Out Your Race Loud and Clear" | 165 |
| A Jewman in the U.S. Army | 167 | |
| A Touch of Freedom | 169 | |
| Fort Dix: "I'm Black and My Balls Are Made of Brass" | 171 | |
| "Sound Out Your Race, Loud and Clear! Caucasian or Negra!" Yelled the White Sergeant in Segregated Georgia | 173 | |
| Holy Communion of Bagels and Lox for Jewish Personnel | 177 | |
| Black Barbers Brought on Base to Cut Black Men's Hair | 179 | |
| Captain Hammond, Baritone, and the Children of the Perigord | 180 | |
| Verse 9 | Mumbling about Race and Religion in China, Nigeria, Tuscaloosa, and Buenos Aires | 187 |
| Ma Ke, a Chinese Jew with Whom I Shared Suppers in Beijing | 189 | |
| Olaudah Equiano Bouncing around the Globe as a Slave Sailor under a Quaker Captain Until He Settles Down in London as a Distinguished Writer and Abolitionist | 192 | |
| "Some of us grow ashamed," by Yusef Komunyakaa | 200 | |
| Yusef Komunyakaa, the Black Nightingale Singing on Paper with the Richness of a Sweet Potato (YK & WB) | 201 | |
| A Diversion Down to Argentina | 206 | |
| Verse 10 | Saying a Hebrew Prayer at My Brother's Christian Funeral | 209 |
| Saying a Hebrew Prayer at My Brother's Christian Funeral | 211 | |
| My Brother Needed to Pass Like the Spanish Saints of Jewish Origin. Here Are Ancestors Whom My Brother, Not by Inquisition but by a Deeper Knife of Fire, Emulated | 212 | |
| My Father, Who Never Tried to Pass, Succumbed to Denial of His Being and Passed from Life | 213 | |
| Verse 11 | Death Has a Way | 223 |
| A Little World | 226 | |
| Appendix | 227 | |
| Notes | 229 | |
| Index | 233 |
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Diego Coronel
reviewed We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems on April 06, 2013
We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems
Although he gave some good, common sense advice on being on time, the book mostly consisted of stories that he gathered from other people about their experiences with CP Time (Colored People Time). I could give you some experiences myself, but they are all minor in comparison to some of the stories he tells.
I gave it two stars because it was "marketed" as an academic book in the Introduction which dove deep into the issue of being late, how people come to have chronic lateness, and what those individuals can do to be on time. Instead, it was more geared for entertaining. I definitely wasn't the audience for this book. Granted, it was a gift and I didn't pay for it, so I don't feel bad about being disappointed with this book. There were not very many references (if any really) that would back up some of his research. I know he speaks as though it is primary research, but the information isn't gathered, analyzed, and output given in a constructive manner. It is literally just an anthology of stories. Nothing that really gives me evidence-based information and thus (outside common sense) groundbreaking advice that would help with chronic lateness.
However, that itself would warrant 3 stars, noting that it wasn't an academic look on CP Time. What created the 2 stars in this book for me, was the fact that more than a handful of the stories were one time flukes that people encountered that made them late. To me, that's not CP Time. That's just a one time fluke that made you late that one time. The people in the stories even note that they are normally not late, but that one time that they were late, things went horribly wrong. Then there were stories that, although spoken from different people, were technically the exact same story. Why be redundant? Are the target audience that forgetful?
Finally, there were some grammar issues (unrelated to the flow of natural speech and/or slang), repetitive phrases, confusing dialogue (when did the author stop and a story from someone else begin?) and unnecessary text highlights and whatnot, as if trying to make the book longer by making the font 64 point and changing the style of the text every other page. One chapter was only a half of a page. What gives?
I feel like I could've written about this topic much better than this New York Times Bestselling author, and I'm not even officially published yet. I'm sure his other books have done very well, but this one seems like it was rushed, half done, and not fully thought out. It could've been done better.
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