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Ethan Goffman Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 14, Number 4, Summer 1996, pp. 48-59 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1996.0046 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473386/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:30 GMT from JHU Libraries 48 SHOFAR Summer 1996 Vol. 14, No.4 IMAG(IN)ING EACH OTHER: BlACKS AND JEWS IN RECENT LITERATURE by Ethan Gofl"man Ethan Goffman is a graduate student in English specializing in contemporary American literature at Indiana University. He has previously edited and written for Dissent and Contact II magazines. Portions of this article will appear in his dissertation. In a time of media excess and strained rhetoric, it's aU too easy to reduce relations between Jews and Mrican-Americans to a ruthless narrative of confrontation. The reality is far more complex; the two peoples envision and interpret each other in an intricate array of formats written, spoken, visual, and· musical-and, of course, through individual encounters. Much gOQdwill remains from the distant-seeming days of the 1960s, when the Black-Jewish alliance created a new legal dispensation toward minorities. One genre which exhibits the multidimensional nature of Jewish-Black relations, in an admittedly fragmented and unrepresenta tive fashion, is recent literature. The three
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