Category Archives: Marc B. Shapiro

Of Books And Bans

Marc B. Shapiro writes in 2002: At the end of 2002, within the space of a few months, Orthodox Jewry witnessed something very unusual. With great publicity two books were placed under a ban: Nathan Kamenetsky’s Making of a Godol1 … Continue reading

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Marc Shapiro On Rav Shach

In 2008, Marc Shapiro emails the Daas Torah blog: * I would like to clarify my [1993 email] posting about Rav Shach. In fact I actually hinted to this in my first sentence (if I remember correctly). What I wrote … Continue reading

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Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer’s Program of Torah u-Madda

Marc B. Shapiro writes circa 2000: Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was, together with Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the pioneer of Torah im Derekh Erez in modern times. Although each of them understood this concept differently, with Hildesheimer advocating Orthodox Wissenschaft … Continue reading

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Torah im Derekh Ereẓ in the Shadow of Hitler

Marc B. Shapiro writes circa 2006: With the coming to power of the Nazi regime, and the governmental determination to remove Jews from all aspects of German culture and public life, Torah im Derekh Erez took another hit. Here was … Continue reading

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Suicide and the World-to-Come

Marc B. Shapiro writes in 1993: In 1880 the Jewish community of Iraq was forced to confront a sharp increase in antisemitic persecution. Not all of the country’s Jews were prepared for this new phenomenon and the result was a … Continue reading

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