Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture

Corrects the record on how Yiddish media portrayed African Americans

Understandings of Black-Jewish relations have been notable for the near consensus among scholars that the Yiddish press repeatedly condemned discrimination and prejudice against African Americans, and highlighted the similarities between the situation of Jews in Eastern Europe and Blacks in America. This book argues that this view covers just a sliver of the varied representations of Black women and men. East European Jewis...