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This 5 page paper discusses two of the essays in Jonathan Kaufman's book "Broken Alliance." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and the groups are hostile. This paper examines two of the essays in his book with regard to this issue. Discussion Kaufman has divided his book into three sections, "Cooperation,"
"Confrontation," and "Competition and Conflict," and explains that these are the three phases that Jewish-black relations went through since World War II (Grubach). He structures his book around seven biographies,
those of "three blacks and four Jews who were deeply involved in the civil-rights movement" (Grubach). Kaufman argues that "Blacks and Jews were brought together by intersecting agendas. Jews, emerging
from the catastrophe of the Second World War ... latched onto a political agenda which, they believed, would ensure their success in America: Society should not make distinctions based on
race or religion. That was good for blacks -- but it was good for Jews, too" (Kaufman, p. 268). Blacks at the time were already fighting for their rights, and
they "accepted the help of Jews as people who could make a difference" (Kaufman, 1995, p. 268). While those involved in the civil rights movement experienced "genuine love and cooperation,"
the main motivation for the alliance was success (Kaufman, 1995, p. 268). "The alliance was a means to an end, not an end in itself" (Kaufman, 1995, p. 268). We
can argue that at times, people "use" each other in the best possible ways-by drawing on each others strengths to reach goals that are mutually beneficial. That might well describe
the Jewish/black alliance, until it went wrong. Well look now at the essays from the "Cooperation" section: "Black and white together" about Paul Parks and "Not a Negro cause but
a human cause," which describes Jack Greenberg. Paul Parks is a black activist whose name is probably not generally well known. In 1945, Parks was one of the first GIs
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