The Colors of Zion

(Harvard University Press) This book examines the relationships between Blacks, Jews, and the Irish between the years of the Irish Famine and the end of World War II. Bornstein argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies between these groups were much greater than often acknowledged today. He analyzes a wide range of evidence to support this claim, looking at immigration laws, music from slave spirituals, and Jewish publishing houses among others. Bornstein is C.A. Patrides Professor of Literature, emeritus, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.