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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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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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