Click through to each book’s title for more. His books include Thoughts From A Unicorn: 100 Black. Summaries provided via NYPL’s catalog, which draws from multiple sources. In 2010 MaNishtana launched the first online dating site catering to Jews of Color, Mosaic Matches. AdamsĪdams retells his story of growing up in Harlem and being exposed to the Black Power movement during his time as a student at New York University before being invited to attend a classmate's synagogue leading to his eventual conversion to Judaism. The Hebrew Israelites are an autonomous African American movement who identify themselves as descendants of the Israelites and some of whom self-identify as Jews, probably originating in the late 19th-century American South. Now clean and sober, he has dedicated his life to helping others suffering from the same.įrom Ghetto to Ghetto: An African American Journey to Judaism by Ernest H. Despite all of these advantages, he eventually became homeless and addicted.

Go Figure by Gary Marshall Sargeīorn Black and Jewish and immediately adopted, Steven Charles Pickman is a high-energy comedian, a piano virtuoso since the age of 5, and an excellent singer. Not in the Library's collections but worth seeking out:īlack Boychik: The Hilarious True Story of a Fat, Mixed-Race Jew Crack Addict Who Somehow Becomes a Comedian. Enter Thoughts From A Unicorn, a witty and uncanny satire detailing the not-autobiographical account of MaNishtana, an African American Orthodox Jew. MaNishtana Text works, available on website, include: Thoughts From A Unicorn: 100 Black. New York & New Jersey Thoughts From A Unicorn: 100 Black 100 Jewish 0 Safe fans, this upcoming. 8, Fall 5765/2004) Access with your NYPL library card.

' Journey to the Promised Land: How I Became an African-American Jew Rather Than A Jewish African American' by Carol Conaway ( Nashim, no. Uncommon Rhythm is a harrowing yet moving account of Aaron's personal journey through social isolation and discrimination to found one of the nation's cultural jewels, the Sphinx Organization.

Uncommon Rhythm: A Black, White, Jewish, Jehovah's Witness, Irish Catholic Adoptee's Journey to Leadership by Aaron P.

Thoughts From A Unicorn by MaNishtana