With Martin Luther King Day just around the corner, and African American History Month coming up in February, we decided to highlight some of the top books on black-Jewish relations, as well as memoirs and novels by authors who are both black and Jewish.
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Nu, what’s not to like?
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The Color of Water is a moving memoir, but it is not particularly about Black – Jewish relationships. Rather, it is a man’s story about his mother, herself a white woman raised in the Orthodox Jewish community, who spends her adult life as part of an African American Christian community in New York.
Thanks for the comment Suzanne. Glad you like the memoir, and you’re right that the title of the article didn’t perfectly capture of the variety of diverse books on that list.
Has anyone read any of these other books? I’ve personally only read Color of Water and Black, White and Jewish but some of these other books, especially those about Jewish activism during the Civil Rights Movement, sound fascinating.