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Preface; Introduction, Part I. The Space Between Black and Jew: Part II.History and Allegory: A Match Made in Shadow: 1. 'An antiphonal game' andbeyond: facing Call It Sleep and Invisible Man; 2. 'Jew me sue me dont youblack or white me': the (ethical)politics of recognition in Saul Bellow andChester Himes; 3. Words Generally Spoil Things and Giving a Man a Final Say:facing history The Chaneysville Incident and Operation Shylock; 4.Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or, Golems and Tar Babys: fates of recognitionin John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud; 5. Black-Jewish inflations: face(off) in Mamet's Homicide and the O. J. Simpson trial; Postface Deja vu allover again: Ann Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror.