Symposium on Black and Jewish Americans

Please note: The final paper titles may have changed since the abstracts were submitted.

Abstracts

“‘We Should Have Had a 'Nuernberg' After the Civil War’: Black American Holocaust Reckoning and the Evolving Politics of Analogy, 1945-1951

Abstract: “Ain’t no such thing as a white Jew”: Understanding the Jew in A Tree Grows in BrooklynAbstract: “Ain’t no such thing as a white Jew”: Understanding the Jew in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Israel/Palestine as Flashpoint

Jews as Historians of the Black American Experience

Black Jews and the Problem of Ortho-ethnicity

Words of Witness: Hans Massaquoi, the Power of Memoir, and Tools for Black-Jewish 1967's Unclaimed Experience:

1967's Unclaimed Experience: Philip Roth's Newark and the Legacy of Angela Davis

The Inner African: Blacks, Jews, and the Problem of the Color Line

“Tense, afraid, nervous, hysterical, and restless”: Native Son and the Jewish Bigger Thomas

Lorraine Hansberry, Tillie Olsen: Black and Jewish Women Intellectuals, Race, and the Cold War

Southern Jews and the Lost Cause