Booker T. Washington's Schoolhouses

NEARLY TWENTY YEARS ago, the Jewish Museum in New York mounted an exhibition that sought, rather ambitiously, to chronicle, interpret, and celebrate the once-storied relationship between African Americans and American Jews. Called Bridges and Boundaries, the exhibition determinedly reclaimed the high moral ground, eager to re-establish the ties that had historically bound the two groups together rather than heed those that had, of late, ripped them apart. Its larger objective was to highlight the bridges and minimize the boundaries between the two communities.