Reviews for Broken Alliance

The average rating for Broken Alliance based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-08 00:00:00 Donald Mitchell Students sophisticated and novice alike enjoy this book when I assign it in my "Race and Judaism" class. This is the best wrap-around intro to (Ashkenazi) Jewish-Black relations in the US. Kaufman tells the story with journalistic clarity, interviewing crucial figures in the post-war American landscape:NAACP lawyer Jack Greenberg; Black educators and activists Paul Parks and Rhody McCoy; Martin Peretz, the too-cautious New Left liberal; political operative Donna Brazille as a youthful up-and-comer. The book has a parade of cameo voices from the Civil Rights Movement and after, and also some unsystematic side-bar selections from Lenny Bruce, Baldwin, Podhoretz, and other primary sources you might find in a Black-Jewish reader. Sadly, the story ends in the mid-90s (Crown Heights is briefly touched on in the preface) and since then a whole barrage of new topics have emerged: the visibility of Jews of Color, new'yet familiar'hot button wranglings around Israel, and the presidency of Obama

Review # 2 was written on 2010-04-25 00:00:00 Kenneth So A very good analysis of an often uncomfortable topic. A quick read. It might do some good for the author to create a second edition, this one ends around the mid 1980s. (However, not much has changed since!)