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A COUPLEO(Oth<f notes

about Esquires writing
family: we're pleased to
welcome back George
Leonard and his annual

se off by King and his counterpans. It health and fitness section, which we have
Sim issue once uft,.
philosophy. been tunnutg in OM
the religiOU S 211d
Leonard has conceived and
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Taylor Branch: Leaders needed by blacks, Jews.

Blacks, Jews Troubled
By Leadership Crisis?

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

Special to The Jewish News

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—, gas to report and rake on
rapng,a1-
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bass
with
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! so much, and so little, in
common. ••Blacks and
Jews: the Uncivil War -
lPage B91 is no mere diver-
sion between book,
It is with spnlal enthusi-
asm that we once again
publish Branch, who re-
joins . this month as a
contributing editor. We
publish his piece knowing
that it will not silence the
argument between its rwo
proud antagonists, but
with the certainty that it
shines light on the dew
origins of the nit. There's a
•; great deal to lurn from it.
yOU
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kamed in kinden,men.

GLANCE 31 the hest-seller list
fevOis the usual 10 . 3y of sus

n a lengthy, thoughtful
essay in Esquire maga-
zine, Baltimore writer
Taylor Branch examines the
current breach between
blacks and Jews and con-
cludes that both communities
"need an exchange rather
than a war of leadership, but
their steep paths are littered
with pride."
Branch, a Mt. Washington
resident who recently won a
a Pulitzer Prize for his book
on the civil rights movement,
Parting the Waters, said that
blacks and Jews both now
"face historic, largely
unacknowledged, crises of
leadership."
For Jews, according to
Branch, the crisis stems from
"the combination of worldly
comforts and a re-established
Israel, which are both the pro-
mise and the curse of
Judaism . . . For a culture
steeped in exile and outsider
status, the core teachings [of
Judaism] present success as a
threat to Jewish morality,
and history warns that a
kingdom of Israel has brought
a flash of glory followed by
corruption and destruction."
And, writes Branch, "more
than any other people on
earth, including the Jews,
American blacks have
adopted the Mosaic model of
social organization, with the
exalted political prophet
bonded to the 'children of
Israel' below."
But this model, he asserts,
"may not serve to raise the
underclass from suffering.

The historic model of uplift by
politics, in a mass march
behind a great Moses figure,
may have no application to
the modern dispossessed.
This possibility, together with
the realization that American
Jews themselves did not
reach prosperity by such a
path, presents dilemmas of
nearly unbearable sensitivi-
ty."
Branch notes that no black
leader "dares to tell their peo-
ple that they may have to
become more like Jews — ris-
ing from the rubble, shop by
shop. They summon the rest
of America to help them avoid
this awesome chore rather
than to join it . . . Against this
surfeit of black prophets, Jews
have no commanding voices
. . . There is no pre-eminent
leader to summon Israel to do
justice by the Palestinians in
the name of Amos and Isaiah
. . .
"Ironically," concludes
Branch, "the present conflict
sets the most scapegoated
people in America against
those who hold the record
across all prior history. Hav-
ing regenerated inter-
changeable limbs for old
wounds, they are wrestling
over mixed pieces of a hybrid
identity."

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U.S. Poll Urges
Talks Between
Israel, PLO -

Seven out of 10 Americans
want Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization to
negotiate directly, and eight
out of 10 said peace in the
Middle East is not possible

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