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YO VAY . . . Are blacks and Jews still on speaking terms? STRANGERS IN THE LAND: BLACKS, JEWS, POST-HOLOCAUST AMERICA BY ERIC J. SUNDQUIST CAMBRIDGE, MA: BELKNAP PRESS. 662 PAGES. $35.

At the beginning of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America, Eric J. Sundquist writes that it is now possible to undertake a comprehensive study of the relationship between blacks and Jews not only because the century has ended but "because their special relationship appears to have ended as well." Indeed, it has been a long time since the early days of the civil rights movement, when blacks and Jews marched together on Washington and were even lynched together in Mississippi. …