A very thorough, well-researched account of the oft-overlooked relationship between the emergent Black Power movement and the Jewish community. While many Jewish groups were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, as the civil rights movement started to depart from the sort of liberal integrationism that the Jewish community was most comfortable with, tensions began to develop between mainstream Jewish groups and Black organizations pushing for more radical change. That part of the story is well-known -- indeed, it's almost cliche at this point. Where Dollinger does novel and important work is in complicating that narrative -- for example, showing how the ideas and practices of Black Power influenced Jewish political practice and development (most notably, in the campaigns on behalf of Soviet Jewry). Dollinger also accurately portrays points of ambivalence within the Jewish community around the civil rights agenda, complicating overly-rosy pictures where the Jewish community was univocally standing in solidarity with Black activists (without swinging over to a contrarian and tendentious reverse position -- acting as if it's just a myth that Jews supported civil rights).

At times, it did feel as if Dollinger was intent on dumping all the (immense) archival research he had done onto the page, regardless of whether it fit the narrative he was telling (or at other points, regardless if it was needlessly duplicative). But overall, this is a superb, comprehensive, and well-thought-out resource. ( )