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We Jews and Blacks : memoir with poems /
Willis Barnstone's third book of memoirs begins with his childhood and ends with his brother's death in 1987. A central theme is labels - names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. Barnstone speaks as a Jew who has from early in his life shared paral...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- TOC
- Acknowledgments
- A Chat with the Reader
- The Hell Face of Sacred Distinctions
- The Plot
- Jews and Blacks of Early Childhood
- Swans over Manhattan
- Anatole Broyard (1920-90), the Inventor
- What Was a Jew?
- Dad Grew Up in the Streets
- Languages of the Jews
- Spanish Jews
- Jews and Blacks of Early Adolescence
- "At the Red Sea," by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Assimilation and Passing under the Shadow of War and Holocaust
- Yehuda Maccabee and Hellenization of the Jews
- Gnosticism and Other Heresies
- A Summer Camp in Maine with the Scent of Palestine.
- Sammy Propp of the Black Shoes
- Black People
- Leah Scott
- My Unseen Black Grand-Stepmother
- Othello
- Reading the Bible in Hebrew
- Bar Mitzvah
- "Othello's Rose," by Yosef Komunyakaa
- Early Jewish Corruption and Bayard Rustin, the BlackNightingale
- Early Corruption
- Yeshua ben Yosef Passing as Jesus Christ
- So Long, Sammy
- Off to the Quakers
- Bayard Rustin, the Black Nightingale Singing His People into the Heart of the Makers of the Underground Railroad
- More Deadly Application Blanks
- Jews and Blacks in College, and Freedom in Europe.
- Bowdoin College: The Jewish and Black Ghetto in Old LongfellowHall
- A Letter to The Nation
- Coming Out of My Own Ghetto of Silences
- Off to Europe, Where Old-Fashioned Bigotry Is Huge, yet Now WhoCares? Not Me
- Changing Money on the Rue des Rosiers and Getting Married by the Grand Rabbi of Paris
- Having Fun at Gunpoint in Crete
- Working in Greece for the King
- White Islands and Northern Monasteries on Huge Stalagmites
- Thessaloniki, a City of Peoples
- Greeks and Jews and Blacks and Russians
- Jews, Greeks, and Romans in Alexandria
- Cavafy and His Poem "Of the Jews (a.d. 50)."
- Romaniot Jews in Byzantium
- The Sephardim in Muslim Spain
- Jews and Greeks in Thessaloniki
- Facts on the Slaughter
- Thessaloniki and Absence
- Days and Nights with Odysseus on the Way to Holy Athos
- The Madness of a Jew Trying to Marry in a Greek Orthodox Churchin Crete
- A Black and White Illumination
- Friendship in Tangier with a French Baroness Who Told Me I HadKilled Her Lord
- "Sound Out Your Race Loud and Clear"
- A Jewman in the U.S. Army
- A Touch of Freedom
- Fort Dix: "I'm Black and My Balls Are Made of Brass."
- "Sound Out Your Race, Loud and Clear! Caucasian or Negra!"Yelled the White Sergeant in Segregated Georgia
- Holy Communion of Bagels and Lox for Jewish Personnel
- Black Barbers Brought on Base to Cut Black Men's Hair
- Captain Hammond, Baritone, and the Children of the Périgord
- Mumbling about Race and Religion in China, Nigeria, Tuscaloosa, and Buenos Aires
- Ma Ke, a Chinese Jew with Whom I Shared Suppers in Beijing
- Olaudah Equiano Bouncing around the Globe as a Slave Sailor under aQuaker Captain Until He Settles Down in London as aDistinguished Writer and Abolitionist.