Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century

Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In , Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement--but one that energized the civil rights revolution, shaped the agenda of liberalism, and affected the course of American politics as a whole.