Jacques Berlinerblau is a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University and the co-author (with Terrence Johnson) of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue. His next book, Can We Laugh at That? Comedy in Conflicted Age, will be released on March 24.
Jacques Berlinerblau
By Jacques Berlinerblau
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