May 14, 2004
White Negroes and Native Sons: Jazz and Writing in America
Literature has scarcely told the story of relations between African-Americans and Jews in America. Irving Howe thought he could tell Ralph Ellison how to be black, and Saul Bellow asked where he could find the Zulu Tolstoy. Langston Hughes hardly achieved tikkun with the 1927 Fine Clothes to the Jew, and Amiri Baraka ranked high on the Anti-Defamation League's most-wanted list. Literary exchanges between African-Americans and Jews were often oppositional: Mailer vs. Baldwin, Baraka vs. the
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