By Mark K. Bauman,Berkley Kalin
The learn of black-Jewish kin has turn into a hotbed of controversy, particularly with reference to the position performed through Jewish leaders in the course of the Civil Rights stream. Did those leaders play a pivotal position, or did a lot of them, specifically within the South, succumb to societal strain and try to be authorised instead of threat being persecuted? If a few of these leaders did decide upon a quieter course, have been their purposes legitimate? And have been their equipment successful?
The individuals during this quantity discover the motivations and next habit of rabbis in quite a few southern environments either earlier than and through the civil rights fight. Their learn demonstrates that almost all southern rabbis certainly confronted pressures now not skilled within the North and felt the necessity to stability those countervailing forces to accomplish their ethical imperative.
Individually, every one essay deals a glimpse into either the personal and public problems those rabbis confronted of their fight to accomplish stable. jointly, the essays offer an unprecedented photograph of Jewish management through the civil rights era.
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