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He'd like Easy to start looking in — you get the idea — on a certain union organizer, "Calls himself a worker" and says he's doing charity work. "But that's just a front. He's looking for others who are like him; people who feel that this country has given them a raw deal. He feels like that, doesn't hardly trust a soul. But the thing is, he'll trust you. He's got a soft spot for Negroes." The union organizer's name: Chaim Wenzler. Articles about Walter Mosley always make it clear that he identifies as black. He also identifies as Jewish, though he says he's not reli- gious, and his books fre- quently feature Jewish characters like Chaim Wenzler. Devil includes two Holocaust survivors. Mr. Mosley dreams of vis- iting Tel Aviv. And his wife, choreographer Joy Kellman, is Jewish. They have no children, but he already anticipates the question: "You want to know, are we raising them Jewish?" If he speaks more fre- quently about racism than anti-Semitism it's because the former is inevitable in American society. Jews, he observes, have the option of assimilating. They can choose how much they iden- tify as Jewish in public. They can even change their names. (Most people don't complain about living next to Jews, either, he says, though they might not want their daughter to marry one). Blacks are always < black. During the early waves of immigration to the United States, and after World War II, East European Jews understood well what it meant to be a recognizable minority, Mr. Mosley says. His own Jewish forefathers "really understood oppres- sion — what it means not to be considered equal, to be regarded not having a mind and a soul." In Devil in a Blue Dress, Easy Rawlins recalls watch- ing as his sergeant rescues a boy from a Nazi death camp, a boy so starved he cannot at first digest decent food. ( Mr. Mosley prefers not to dwell on black anti-Semitism or Jewish racism. "I'll never forget thinking how those Germans had hurt that poor boy so terribly that he couldn't even take in anything good," Easy says. "That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thou- sand years." Today, most of those immigrants' grandchildren may identify as Jewish, but they also feel themselves very white. "Blacks," Mr. Mosley says, "have never considered themselves 'white.'" Mr. Mosley prefers not to dwell on black anti- Semitism or Jewish racism — he said no thank you to a Jewish newspaper's request that he denounce City College of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries, who claimed that Jews manipulated Hollywood films to demean blacks — but he does ask this ques- tion of the Jewish communi- ty: "People are always talk- ing to me about Jesse Jackson. Why is it that when somebody black says something anti-Semitic it becomes much worse? "When Jews ask me about Jesse Jackson, 1 say to N