Black Slurs on Jews

Black Slurs on Jews Dictionary of Antisemitism: From the Earliest Times to the Present by Robert Michael and Philip Rosen (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 489 pages, $50.00)

In the civil rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century, Jews and African Americans were partners in the fight for equal rights. Yet in these blessed times of cooperation there were signs of anti-Semitism among key black leaders.

In 1967 Stokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, stated that "the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist."

Author Richard Wright explained the origins of antiSemitism in the black community when he wrote, "All of...