The colors of Zion

"A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, [this book] argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy"--Publisher description.