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PROFESSORIAL FORAYS

David Becomes Goliath
Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan meet with troops on the Golan Heights On October 5, 1973, the State of Israel...

Dogged by Domesticity
Alice Dunbar-Nelson painted by Laura Wheeler Waring “A rising tide lifts all boats,” as the saying goes, but in the case of the possible...

The Harlem Renaissance (The California Connection)
Arna Bontemps For scholars and historians of the period, it is well understood that the Harlem Renaissance refers to a quickening of...

The Evilest Queer Jew in America
A panel from the AIDS quilt The list of evil queer Jews with any sort of public profile isn't long, but Roy Cohn, lawyer to the worst...


Christmas Clobbers Hanukkah
Our home town Christmas tree, Union Square, San Francisco Jewish holidays fall broadly into two categories – those confirming the...

Paris, je t'aime!
Nous quatre a Paris Jazz paved the way for the establishment of an African American expatriate community in Paris. The French were blown...

Operation Moses
Ethiopian Jews Airlifted to Israel During the height of King Solomon’s reign of glory, o Best Beloved!, the dark-skinned Queen of Sheba,...

The Black Israelites
The Commandment Keepers of Harlem First of all, they’re not Jews – at least not as understood by Jewish consensus. (Jews are either...


Marcus Garvey's Antisemitic Flare-Up
Garvey handcuffed to U.S. Marshal on his way to prison. Marcus Garvey was, without question, one of the most consequential and...

Queer Eye for the Renaissance Guy: The Impact of Alain Locke
Alain Locke’s claim to immortality rightly rests on his epochal 1925 anthology, “The New Negro” and midwifing the first generation of...

The Queer Harlem Renaissance and the Visual Arts: Richmond Barthé
Of the many visual artists born at the turn of the last century who came of age during the Harlem Renaissance, only one has been pegged...

The Tortured Antisemitism of Amiri Baraka
We want poems like fists beating niggers out of Jocks or dagger poems in the slimy bellies of the owner-jews. These lines, published in a...
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