![]() ![]() A partisan of the Left, she seeks in this volume to tell the story of the involvement of Jews in black baseball in a way that will hopefully strengthen ties between blacks and Jews along leftist lines. Alpert, a member of the departments of religion and women’s studies at Temple University, is a prominent feminist scholar and the author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition (1997), Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism (2008), and Voices of the Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook (2000). Alpert argues, “provides a unique vantage point through which to interpret the complex economic and social negotiation between blacks and Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, tell the story of black Jews, and understand Jewish efforts at social justice in a business that was defined and constricted by the black-white racial divide” (p. “The story of the Jews who came out of left field and into the world of black baseball,” Rebecca T. Out of Left Field has set for itself an ambitious goal. Reviewed by Edward Shapiro (Seton Hall University) Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball. ![]()
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