Symposium on Black and Jewish Americans

Goodman, James

  • James Goodman
  • Position: Distinguished Professor
  • School: Rutgers University-Newark

  • James Goodman is the author of essays, short stories, and three books, Stories of Scottsboro (1994), Blackout (2003), and But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining The Story of Abraham and Isaac (Schocken, 2013). He is currently completing two books, one of which is on the life and career of Sidney Poitier, for Significations, a series of books on canonical Black figures curated by Henry Louis Gates. Since 1997, he’s been at Rutgers Newark, where he is a Distinguished Professor of History and head of non-fiction in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
  • Person Type: Co-organizers

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