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Marc B. Shapiro holds the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Works by Marc B. Shapiro
Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) (2003) 58 copies
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966 (1999) 38 copies
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Rabbi Saul Lieberman, the greatest Talmudist of the 20th century, is virtually unknown in the community that cares most about the Talmud—the Orthodox. That wasn’t always so. How, Shapiro asks, did Rabbi Lieberman go from a revered figure among the Orthodox to one hardly remembered? The answer lies not only in the details of his biography but also in the boundaries that observant American Jews erected between themselves during his lifetime. Whether those boundaries did more harm than good show more is the question behind the question. show less
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