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Rootless Cosmopolitan

A little late for Black History Month, but nonetheless

Rachael Kafrissen

March 4, 2010

(Photo of the Jewish Currents Editorial Board taken from the souvenir journal of the May 25, 1969 annual dinner. The theme was "Negroes and Jews: Interdependent".)
And click here to read my January 2009 Rootless Cosmopolitan featuring a short history of Black-Jewish relations in the pages of Jewish Currents.

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