{"product_id":"colors-of-zion","title":"Colors of Zion","description":"\u003cp\u003eA major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, \u003ci\u003eThe Colors of Zion\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If what they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current constructions of interracial and ethnic relations have overemphasized conflict and division. As \u003cb\u003eGeorge Bornstein\u003c\/b\u003e says in his Introduction, he chooses “to let the principals speak for themselves.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile acknowledging past conflicts and tensions, Bornstein insists on recovering the “lost connections” through which these groups frequently defined their plights as well as their aspirations. In doing so, he examines a wide range of materials, including immigration laws, lynching, hostile race theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices, and Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like \u003ci\u003eThe Melting Pot\u003c\/i\u003e and Abie’s \u003ci\u003eIrish Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, canonical novels like \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e, music from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry, and early films such as \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Singer\u003c\/i\u003e. The models of brotherhood that extended beyond ethnocentrism a century ago, the author argues, might do so once again today, if only we bear them in mind. He also urges us to move beyond arbitrary and invidious categories of race and ethnicity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250828202328,"sku":"9780674057012","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674057012_5c2f42cd-ae70-4b01-b6fc-c41fc3a417dd.jpg?v=1771312552","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/colors-of-zion","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}