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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Tracing the Roots of the Black-Israel Alliance\"
DESCRIPTION:West Bloomfield Lecture Series: Israel in the World\n\nThis talk provides an historical overview of Sephardic/Mizrahi civil rights protests in Israel and examines how the Mizrahi struggle helped forge ties between the African-American community and the State of Israel. Drawing inspiration from the American Civil Rights Movement\, Mizrahi Jews fought against inequality by means of hunger strikes\, marches\, sit-ins\, and tent protests. \n\nOn the other hand\, African-American civil rights leaders drew parallels between the Mizrahi and African-American communities and used this as a basis for forging strategic alliances with the State of Israel. As a result\, civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King and Whitney Young corresponded with Israeli diplomats and statesmen in order to gain insights from the Mizrahi experience and reproduce a blueprint for how to achieve equality and advance the position of Blacks in America. These transnational intellectual exchanges laid the foundations for Israel advocacy among Black social justice and religious activists. \n\nBryan Roby received his PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Manchester and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at New York University. He is the author of The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948–1966\, in which he drew upon a wealth of declassified archival sources in order to provide the first comprehensive historical accounts of the Middle Eastern Jewish struggle for equality in Israel. His current research focuses on questions of Blackness\, comparative migration experiences\, and connections made between the African-American community and Mizrahi Jews during the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and has lectured throughout Europe\, the Middle East\, and the US.\n\nImage courtesy of Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System\, Box 21 Folder 5\n\nSponsored by: Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies and JCC's Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35656
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Jewish Studies,Lecture
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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