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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
The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Bat­tles with America
Joseph Berg­er
Non­fic­tion
Black Harlem and the Jew­ish Low­er East Side: Nar­ra­tives Out of Time
Catherine Rottenberg, ed.
Non­fic­tion
City of Promis­es: A His­to­ry of the Jews of New York, With a Visu­al Essay by Diana L. Linden
Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
Non­fic­tion
The Gam­bler’s Daugh­ter: A Per­son­al and Social History
Annette B. Dunlap
Non­fic­tion
In the Shad­ow of Race: Jews, Lati­nos, and Immi­grant Pol­i­tics in the Unit­ed States
Victoria Hattam
Non­fic­tion
Klezmer Amer­i­ca: Jew­ish­ness, Eth­nic­i­ty, Modernity
Jonathan Freedman
Non­fic­tion
Jews and Booze: Becom­ing Amer­i­can in the Age of Prohibition
Marni Davis
Non­fic­tion
The Wiz­ard of Lies: Bernard Mad­off and the Death of Trust
Diana B. Henriques
Non­fic­tion
Hel­lu­va Town: The Sto­ry of New York City Dur­ing World War II
Richard Goldstein
Non­fic­tion
My Times & Life: A His­to­ri­an’s Progress Through a Con­tentious Age
Morton Keller
Non­fic­tion
The Un-Amer­i­cans: Jews, the Black­list, and Stoolpi­geon Culture
Joseph Litvak
Non­fic­tion
The Jer­sey Sting
Ted Sherman and Josh Margolin
Non­fic­tion
The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball’s Great­est Jew­ish Team
Dou­glas Stark

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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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