Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 229-236.

Black culture and black Zion : African American religious encounters with Judaism, 1790-1930, an overview / Yvonne Chireau -- African American Jews : dispelling myths, bridging the divide / Bernard J. Wolfson -- Symbolic identity formation in an African American religious sect : the black Hebrew Israelites / Merrill Singer -- Another exodus : the Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona / Ethan Michaeli -- The proximate other : the Nation of Islam and Judaism / Nathaniel Deutsch -- The Nubian Islaamic Hebrews, Ansaaru Allah community : Jewish teachings of an African American Muslim community / Kathleen Malone O'Connor -- Remembering Nehemiah : a note on Biblical theology / Allen Dwight Callahan -- Theological affinities in the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Susannah Heschel -- This is the gateway to the Lord : the legacy of synagogue buildings for African American churches on Cincinnati's Reading Road / Karla Goldman -- "The Jew" in the Haitian imagination : pre-modern anti-Judaism in the postmodern Caribbean / Elizabeth A. McAlister.