| Contents |
From Maniewicze to Milwaukee--the making of a writer/activist -- Milwaukee in the 1940s and 1950s/diary, 1959 -- LA in the 1950s and 1960s -- Habonim/Dror, 1956-1964 -- Israel, 1962-1963/diary, 1963 -- Golda and me -- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee : becoming an activist/intellectual, 1963-1967; The Milwaukee riots and Father Groppi; The beginning of the counterculture for me; Hippies, acid trips, and communes -- Activism continued, 1967-1971 : the 1968 Chicago Convention riot; The Chicago 8 trial; My relationship to Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krasner, and Lee Weiner; The black student sit-in at NYU; The founding of the radical Jewish student movement; The 1960s (civil rights, hippies, grass, acid, the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War, Vietnam, Woodstock) -- My days and nights in the Jewish Defense League -- Northwestern : the making of a sociologist -- Academic follies -- Reunions -- My Grove Press days -- My Nazi-hunting days -- My Native American days and nights (sun dances, sweat lodges, dealing with death) -- Marriage and settling down/the Almuly family/a jittery decade, the 1970s--the first half of the radical decade; The second half--we grow up, settle down, and get married -- The death of a father -- The founding of the IAGS/International Association of Genocide Scholars/Trips to Sarajevo, Iraq, and other zones of conflict -- A Jew at the Ukrainian Institute -- No tenure : the switch to real estate : hello, Harold Brown and other billionaires -- The landlord : dealing with weirdoes (crazy tenants), wise guys (Italian, Russian, African American), and community organizers (Chuck Turner, Mel King, Ray Flynn) -- The death of my mother -- Running for office--Skakes, Fitzie, and other Kennedys -- The New Yorker article -- The lost, confused, and yet somehow productive years of 1990-2010 (divorce, stress--the Mallory-Weiss Syndrome--death of second wife, alienation from family yet traveling the world lecturing on genocide and its prevention) -- Rabbi in paradise ("Key West Rabbi") -- Finding love again, with Raya, 2011-2017 -- Back to Harvard and stability, 2011-2020--renewed productivity, especially with help from world-famed designer and cousin Allen Porter, support from my mentor and genocide guide Greg Stanton, and spiritual and communal support from my Sephardic shul -- Toward the future/miracles/Mormons/Mahayana meditation/finding peace and love again. |
| Abstract |
"This memoir of a radical Jew follows Jack Nusan Porter's journey from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust, through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day, and details his experiences fighting anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate"-- Provided by publisher. |
