December 15, 2000

The Relationship Between Blacks and Jews

To the Editor:

In "Strangers and Neighbors: Teaching and Writing About Blacks and Jews" (The Review, November 3), Maurianne Adams and John Bracey make some important points. Certainly, media stereotypes about both past black-Jewish cooperation and recent black-Jewish conflict are damaging as well as simplistic, and scholars and teachers ought to challenge them with the realities of what has always been an extremely complicated relationship. Certainly also, we can all benefit from a