Conscience and politics
TitleConscience and politics
Author
Call number296.3/0005
Object number01172m
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
Year of publication
1977
Physical descriptionpp387-391
MaterialArticle
ISBN087068499X
NotesArticle from the book "Auschwitz: beginning of a new era" pp387-391
Description
Ritterband attributes the current tensions between the two communities to the mistaken notion that those who suffer from the same oppressor are natural allies. Blacks and Jews have been the objects of oppression in American society, but the sources of oppression and their forms of expression differed. Blacks were part of American life, though inferior; Jews remained on the outside