Parakletos ID: a4ccff Dec. 26, 2023, 4:52 p.m. No.20135324   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5345

‘Color Purple’ release brings Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism back into focus

Despite the author’s groundbreaking work, her difficult relationship with Israel and Judaism, and outright flirtations with antisemitism, put her at odds with the Jewish community

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/color-purple-release-brings-alice-walkers-history-of-antisemitism-back-into-focus/

Parakletos ID: a4ccff Dec. 26, 2023, 4:56 p.m. No.20135358   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5364

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Growing up in a sharecropper’s shack in rural Georgia, Walker married into Judaism when she met Melvyn Leventhal, a young law student and civil rights activist with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, at a soul food restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1966. Walker, whose activism was influenced by her progressive Spelman College Jewish professor Howard Zinn, had returned to the South to join the civil rights movement after transferring to Sarah Lawrence and traveling through Europe.

Parakletos ID: a4ccff Dec. 26, 2023, 4:57 p.m. No.20135364   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>influenced by her progressive Spelman College Jewish professor Howard Zinn

 

Walker’s activism around Israel for years was contentious but largely in line with most pro-Palestinian thought.