From Commentary A great deal has been written on black-Jewish relations, but, perhaps surprisingly, we still do not have a really good history of the topic. It seems that for historians the better part of wisdom has been either to let this emotion-laden story alone or to engage it in carefully controlled images, of which the most common has been that of two minorities both of whom have suffered tragically at the hands of dominant authority and hence have joined together in a

From The Washington Post BROKEN ALLIANCE The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America By Jonathan Kaufman Scribner's. 311 pp. $19.95 THE NAME-CALLING between blacks and Jews in America has reached a climax. Following such recent excesses as former Chicago mayoral aide Steve Cokely's attack on Jews for spreading AIDs among black children, New York Mayor Ed Koch's statement that Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jesse Jackson, and an L.A. public relations firm's call

From The New York Times BROKEN ALLIANCE The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America. By Jonathan Kaufman. 311 pp. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $19.95. That blacks and Jews in America differ on many issues does not, in itself, seem very remarkable; what is remarkable is the importance that these differences are given and the way they are used by each group to goad the other. In Mayor Koch's attacks on Jesse Jackson in this year's New York Presidential primary,