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The Jewish upstart of African studies

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By Daniel M. Kimmel
Melville J. Herskovits was a Jewish-American academic who broke barriers and changed the course of his field. Yet because he was an anthropologist who focused on tracing African-American culture back to Africa he is likely little known among American Jews.

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