Archive: Center for Jewish Civilization

• Can Dialogue Engender Solidarity? A New Book Invites Conversation and Action Between Blacks and Jews in America

  January 31, 2022

  GU Press is publishing Blacks and Jews in America by Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau. The book invites a dialogue and collective action between the Jewish and African American communities.

  Category: News Story Tags: Books, Center for Jewish Civilization, Faculty, Government

• #Hoyas2019 Research Snapshots

  May 17, 2019

  More than 800 seniors will walk across the stage tomorrow morning and officially conclude their academic journeys at Georgetown. Meet Sam Balthazar, Corine Forward, and Sterling Lykes, three members of the Class of 2019 who distinguished themselves by pursuing fascinating academic research projects during their senior years.

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Biology, Center for Jewish Civilization, Commencement, Computer Science, Research, Spanish and Portuguese, Students, Undergraduate Research

• Senior Explores Jewish Identity in Ghana

  January 14, 2019

  Corine Forward (C’19) has always been fascinated by the concept of identity, especially identities that seem mysterious or idiosyncratic to most of the world.
  This interest brought her to one of the most obscure and isolated communities in the world: the Jewish community of Sefwi-Wiaswo, Ghana, which she is studying for a senior thesis.

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Center for Jewish Civilization, English, Research, Student, Study Abroad