Daily News | Letters to the Editor | Nov. 10, 2022
Recent antisemitic comments by NBA star Kyrie Irving and the rapper Ye challenged my assumptions about Black-Jewish relations. As an American historian and the leader of the nation’s oldest independent Jewish college, I cannot stress enough that the Black and Jewish communities need to obtain a better handle on the important histories of these two marginalized groups, and how each was, in relative terms, kept on the fringes of American life. Of course, the extent of antisemitism in the U.S.
That said, learning “about” hate is insufficient so long as Jews, African Americans, or any other groups believe that remedying injustice is a zero-sum game; that, somehow, too much emphasis on one group will detract from the available time and energy available for the other. Reaching further back into history, this was Isaac Leeser’s fear in the 1860s. Leeser, one of Philadelphia’s ranking Jewish leaders, worried that abolitionists’ success on behalf of enslaved Black Americans might sink Jews to the bottom of the societal totem pole. We need to debunk this long-standing zero-sum assumption — within both the Jewish and black communities — and consider how groups can learn “from” one another to cultivate mutual support.More than 100 cities and towns in the U.S.
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