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In a culture deeply divided along ethnic lines, the idea that the relationship between blacks and Jews was once thought special--indeed, critical to the cause of civil rights--might seem strange. Yet the importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. It is this record, written across the annals of American history and literature, culture and society, that Eric Sundquist investigates. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century. Sundquist explores how reactions to several interlocking issues--the biblical Exodus, the Holocaust, Zionism, and the state of Israel--became critical to black-Jewish relations. He charts volatile debates over social justice and liberalism, anti-Semitism and racism, through extended analyses of fiction by Bernard Malamud, Paule Marshall, Harper Lee, and William Melvin Kelley, as well as the juxtaposition of authors such as Saul Bellow and John A. Williams, Lori Segal and Anna Deavere Smith, Julius Lester and Philip Roth. Engaging a wide range of thinkers and writers on race, civil rights, the Holocaust, slavery, and related topics, and cutting across disciplines to set works of literature in historical context, Strangers in the Land offers an encyclopedic account of questions central to modern American culture.

Non-fiction --- Fiction --- American literature --- Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Catastrophe [Jewish ] (1939-1945) --- Choa --- Destruction des Juifs (1941-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Endlösung der Judenfrage --- Exode (Evénement biblique) --- Exodus (Biblical event) --- Exodus (Bijbelse gebeurtenis) --- Exodus [The ] --- Extermination [Jewish ] (1939-1945) --- Extermination des Juifs (1941-1945) --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Shoah --- Génocide des Juifs (1941-1945) --- Génocide juif (1941-1945) --- Holocaust [Jewish ] (1939-1945) --- Holocaust [Joodse ] (1939-1945) --- Holocaust [Nazi ] --- Holocauste (1941-1945) --- Holocauste juif (1939-1945) --- Hurban (1939-1945) --- Hurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews -- Nazi persecution --- Jews in literature --- Jews--Exodus --- Joden in de literatuur --- Joden--Uittocht --- Juifs -- Extermination (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Génocide (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Holocauste (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Rafles (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Shoah (1941-1945) --- Juifs dans la littérature --- Juifs--Exode d'Egypte --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Question juive [Solution finale de la ] --- Race relations in literature --- Racism in literature --- Racisme dans la littérature --- Racisme in de literatuur --- Rafles de juifs (1941-1945) --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Sho'ah (1939-1945) --- Shoah --- Sionisme --- Solution finale de la question juive --- Uittocht (Bijbelse gebeurtenis) --- Zionism --- Zionisme --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- Exodus, The. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jews in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Zionism. --- Relations with Jews. --- History and criticism. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). --- Exodus, The --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- African American-Jewish relations --- Jewish-African American relations --- Negro-Jewish relations --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Relations with Jews --- History and criticism --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Exodus --- History --- Relations with African Americans --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- United States --- Race relations --- 20th century --- Kelley, William Melvin --- Marshall, Paule --- Malamud, Bernard --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- American literature. --- Exode. --- Holocauste, 1939-1945. --- Juifs dans la littérature. --- Literatur. --- Littérature américaine --- Noirs américains dans la littérature. --- Noirs américains --- Race relations. --- Racisme dans la littérature. --- Rassenbeziehung . --- Relations raciales dans la littérature. --- Sionisme. --- Histoire et critique --- Relations avec les Juifs. --- 1900-1999. --- Juden. --- Schwärze. --- USA. --- United States. --- États-Unis --- Relations raciales --- Histoire --- Relations interethniques --- Juifs --- Dans la littérature --- 1945-.... --- Thèmes, motifs