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Edward Shapiro

Edward Shapiro is pro­fes­sor of his­to­ry emer­i­tus at Seton Hall Uni­ver­si­ty and the author of A Time for Heal­ing: Amer­i­can Jew­ry Since World War II (1992), We Are Many: Reflec­tions on Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry and Iden­ti­ty (2005), and Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brook­lyn Riot (2006).
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Non­fic­tion
Yeshi­va Days: Learn­ing on the Low­er East Side
Jonathan Boyarin
Non­fic­tion
Hou­di­ni: The Elu­sive American
Adam Beg­ley
Non­fic­tion
The Pol­i­tics of Amer­i­can Jews
Her­bert F. Weisberg
Non­fic­tion
Touched with Fire: Mor­ris B. Abram and the Bat­tle against Racial and Reli­gious Discrimination
David E. Lowe
Non­fic­tion
The Foun­da­tions of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Liberalism
Kenneth D. Wald
Non­fic­tion
Cit­i­zen 865 
Deb­bie Cenziper
Non­fic­tion
Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
R. D. Rosen
Non­fic­tion
The Kosher Capones: A His­to­ry of Chicago’s Jew­ish Gangsters
Joe Kraus
Non­fic­tion
Ben Hecht: Fight­ing Words, Mov­ing Pictures
Adi­na Hoffman
Non­fic­tion
Black Pow­er, Jew­ish Pol­i­tics: Rein­vent­ing the Alliance in the 1960s
Marc Dollinger
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Ambiva­lent Embrace: Jew­ish Upward Mobil­i­ty in Post­war America
Rachel Kranson
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Con­sumer Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Jew­ish Identity
Gideon Reuveni
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The Malm­e­dy Mas­sacre: The War Crimes Tri­al Controversy
Steven P. Remy
Non­fic­tion
Rais­ing Sec­u­lar Jews: Yid­dish Schools and Their Peri­od­i­cals for Amer­i­can Chil­dren, 1917 – 1950
Naomi Prawer Kadar
Non­fic­tion
Hol­ly­wood’s Spies: The Under­cov­er Sur­veil­lance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Lau­ra B. Rosenzweig

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Interview

‘Touched with Fire’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David E. Lowe

Edward Shapiro
September 7, 2020
Essay

Fid­dler at Fifty

by Edward ShapiroIt has been fifty years since Fid­dler on the Roof opened on Broad­way on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, 1964 at New York City’s Impe­r­i­al The­ater. To mark its…
Edward Shapiro
December 9, 2014

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