April 9, 2022
Senior Fellow Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau dissect James Baldwin’s landmark essay “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White” on the fifty-fifth anniversary of its publication and argue that, in spite of all the outrage (and confusion) the piece created, it was prescient in many ways.
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Jacques Berlinerblau is the Rabbi Harold White Chair in Jewish Civilization in Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service and senior advisor to the Center for Jewish Civilization, where he was director from 2006 to June 2020. Berlinerblau has published on a wide variety of issues ranging from the sociology of heresy and modern Jewish intellectuals to African-American and Jewish-American relations.
