Jacques Berlinerblau, at The Blogs

Mar 16, 2023, 3:05 PM

Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

(JTA illustration by Mollie Suss; Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection at the Library of Congress)

The author who had racial, religious and sexual hang-ups was also a bearer of unique and meaningful insights

About Me

Jacques Berlinerblau is a professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University and a contributing writer for MSNBC. He is the author of “The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race and Autobiography” (shorturl.at/drtI5) and most recently “Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue,” (shorturl.at/dDZ49) co-authored with Professor Terrence L. Johnson.