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| | Case Western Reserve University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Perhaps the best way to indicate the joys that await the patient reader of this difficult book is to share (in the words of the author) precisely what I found most interesting (with the obvious caveat that the reality varied from epoch to epoch, from slave to slave, and from one community to another). |
 | | Slaves served well-off Jews in the kitchen, laundry room, stable, and as doorkeepers, nursemaids for children, attendants of adults, and as valets, porters, and waiters. |
 | | Jews found the category of (Sephardic Jewish) Whiteness, which arose in this period (and an accompanying "racial" vocabulary), useful for including themselves in the dominant culture as Whites in a manner they could not as non-Christians. |
| www.case.edu /artsci/rosenthal/reviews/Jews-and-Blacks.htm (841 words) |
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