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Marc B. Shapiro

Marc B. Shapiro holds the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. He is the author of Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization).

On Re-Reading a Banned Book: Nathan Kamenetsky’s Making of a Godol

Spring 2022

On Re-Reading a Banned Book: Nathan Kamenetsky’s Making of a Godol

Marc B. Shapiro

Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky spent years on an odd, brilliant biography of his father. The book was banned, and one leading haredi rosh yeshiva said he had forfeited his share in the world to come. Now it is an underground classic that costs $2,503 on Amazon.

Summer 2017

The Rogochover Speaks His Mind 

Marc B. Shapiro

After he visited the odd talmudic genius, Bialik said that “two Einsteins can be carved out of one Rogochover.”

Summer 2012

Berdyczewski, Blasphemy, and Belief

Marc B. Shapiro, Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg

Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, one of the towering figures of the rabbinical establishment, found deep lessons about faith in the writings of the Nietzschean heretic Micha Josef Berdyczewski.

That in Aleppo Once

Spring 2011

That in Aleppo Once

Marc B. Shapiro

Does the most accurate biblical text belong in the synagogue, or in a museum?

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