Volume 18, Number 12 · June 29, 1972
What a Problem!
By Murray Kempton
Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew
by Robert G. Weisbord, by Arthur Stein
Negro Universities Press, 269 pp., $11.50
The Negroes and the Jews
by Leonora E. Berson
Random House, 436 pp., $8.95
No Name in the Street
by James Baldwin
Dial, 197 pp., $5.95
Whatever the reasons—and common sense is not the most likely one—there seems much less alarm about black anti-Semitism these days than there was four years ago. For example, New York City's secondary schools are once again the splendid institutions they were before the Afro-American Teachers Association subjected them to its malignant mischief in the late Sixties. The New York Times no longer compiles the indecencies of the streets; and the only present danger that seems clear enough to the Anti-Defamation League to excuse its abandonment of chivalry is Rabbi Meyer Kahane of the Jewish Defense League.
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