Edward S. Shapiro Explained

Edward S. Shapiro (born 1938)^[1] is a historian of American history and American Jewish history. He received his BA at Georgetown University and his PhD at Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation was The American Distributists and the New Deal. Most of Shapiro's career was spent as professor of American history at Seton Hall University. He is the father of Marc B. Shapiro.

Shapiro has been a resident of West Orange, New Jersey, since 1969.^[2]

Books, articles, lectures

• Clio From the Right: Essays of a Conservative Historian, University Press of America, 1983
• A Time for Healing, American Jewry since World War II , Johns Hopkins Press, 1992 (There are 748 copies in WorldCat libraries^[3])
• Letters of Sidney Hook" Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War, M.E. Sharpe, 1995
• We Are Many: Reflections on American Jewish History and Identity, Syracuse University Press, 2005
• Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot, Brandeis University Press, 2006 (There are 343 copies in WorldCat libraries^[3])
• Yiddish in America : Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land, University of Scranton Press, 2008
• A Unique People in a Unique Land: Essays on American Jewish History, Academic Studies Press, 2022
• Shapiro articles and reviews
• Shapiro book reviews for Jewish Book Council
• Shapiro speaking at Sidney Hook Symposium

Notes and References

1. http://viaf.org/processed/LC%7Cn%20%2083002164 Library of Congress Name Authority File
2. Wilson, Judy. "Crown Heights riot — fact, fiction, and plenty of blame", New Jersey Jewish News, June 8, 2006. Accessed June 20, 2018. "Edward S. Shapiro is too skilled a historian to believe that there is one truth, but he is committed to exploring the varying narratives, examining the language of each, and skewering the biases in Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot (University Press of New England), the first and only book on the first and only anti-Jewish riot in American history.... Although he has lived in West Orange since 1969, where he and his wife, Daryl, belong to Congregation Ohr Torah and Congregation Ahawas Achim B'nai Jacob and David, cities fascinate him."
3. http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n83002164 WorldCat author listing