Blacks & Jews

Resource Information

The work Blacks & Jews represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Blacks & Jews

Statement of responsibility

Snitow-Kaufman Productions ; produced by Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, Bari Scott ; written & directed by Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman

Title variation

Blacks and Jews

Contributor

• California Newsreel (Firm)
• Snitow-Kaufman Productions
• Biale, David, 1949-
• Carson, Clayborne, 1944-
• Coleman, Wanda
• Hiller, Arthur
• Johnson, Albert, 1925 May 9-1998
• Kaufman, Deborah, 1955-
• Lazerson, David B
• Lerner, Michael, 1943-
• Marx, Robert
• Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
• Ross, Clyde
• Rubin, Gary
• Scott, Bari
• Snitow, Alan
• West, Cornel
• Wolfe, Jerry

Subject

• African American students -- California | Oakland -- Attitudes
• African Americans -- Attitudes
• African Americans -- Relations with Jews
• Antisemitism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Black Muslims -- Attitudes
• Castlemont High School (Oakland, Calif.) -- Students | Attitudes
• Conflict management -- United States
• Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• High school students -- California | Oakland -- Attitudes
• Jews -- United States
• Jews -- United States -- Attitudes
• New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations
• Oakland (Calif.) -- Race relations
• Racism -- California | Oakland
• Racism -- New York (State) | New York
• Schindler's list (Motion picture) -- Influence
• United States -- Race relations

Genre

• Documentary films

Language

eng

Summary

Early in the 20th century Black and Jewish Americans joined forces against bigotry and for civil rights but in the late 1960s each group turned inward and the coalition fell apart. This film examines the history of this collaboration and recent racial conflicts between African-Americans and Jews and attempts at understanding and reconciliation, with particular emphasis on events in New York City and Oakland, California

Cataloging source

FQG

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Writers/directors, Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman editor, Veronica Selver ; photography, Ashley James

LC call number

E184.36.A34

LC item number

B53 1997

PerformerNote

• Narrators: Bari Scott, Deborah Kaufman, Alan Snitow
• Commentary: Peter Noel, Una Clarke, Gary Rubin, Phillip Saperia, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, David Lazerson, Michael Lerner, Cornel West, Rabbi Robert Marx, Clyde Ross, Alan Altheimer, Jane Ramsey, Clayborne Carson, Rabbi Marvin Hier, Wanda Coleman, Albert Johnson, Arthur Hiller, David Biale, Jerry Wolfe, Patricia J. Williams

Runtime

85

Technique

live action