Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America, Eric J. Sundquist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 662 pp., 35.00
Eric Sundquist imparts two splendid features—one personal and one intellectual—to his praiseworthy study of Blacks and Jews in post-Holocaust America. As for the personal, Strangers in the Land is the fairest account of African-American and Jewish-American relations that I have ever seen. Given the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 153-156 |
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| Summary: | Eric Sundquist imparts two splendid features—one personal and one intellectual—to his praiseworthy study of Blacks and Jews in post-Holocaust America. As for the personal, Strangers in the Land is the fairest account of African-American and Jewish-American relations that I have ever seen. Given the ambivalences and frictions between these groups, avoidance of abasement or debasement in exploring their interactions is an outstanding accomplishment, possibly due to the fact that Sundquist's identity does not derive from membership in either enclave., Strangers in the Land is also a superb intellectual achievement, particularly in its “lit-crit” approach to Black-Jewish relations. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm018 |