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Samuel DuBois Cook, editor—Black-Jewish Relations: Dillard University National Conference Papers, 1989-1997 • ISBN: 1-57736-082-6 • $22.95 • 352 pages • softcover • 6 x 9 • Imprint: PHP •
Believing that the healing of broken community between Blacks and Jews is "a moral necessity, humanistic imperative, and divine command," Samuel DuBois Cook convened a group of African-Americans and Jewish-Americans on January 24, 1989, at Dillard University in New Orleans. There a commitment was made to hold a National Conference on Black-Jewish Relations in the spring of 1989. The speeches and essays in this book were presented at the conferences by such luminaries as Kenneth B. Clark, Albert Vorspan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Abraham H. Foxman, C. Eric Lincoln, David Saperstein, Gardner C. Taylor, and Sheldon Zimmerman, and represent the stylistic and intellectual richness and variety of the conference participants. Some are moving and inspiring, some painfully honest and forthright, all profoundly positive in their quest for Black-Jewish reconciliation and understanding.
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