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Shapiro was a founding member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in 1930 (AAPA) and between 1935 and 1939 served a term as its secretary and subsequently as vice-president (1941–42). He served as president of the American Anthropological Association in 1948, and president of the American Ethnological Society from 1942 to ...
Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine. Died. 1948. Los Angeles, California, United States. Levi Yehoshua Shapiro ( Yiddish: ל. שאַפּיראָ, born 1878, died 1948), better known as " Lamed Shapiro", ( lamed is the Yiddish name of the letter ל ), was an American Yiddish author. His stories are best known for such themes as murder, rape, and cannibalism.
Shapiro was born to a religious Jewish family in Grodno, where he received a traditional yeshiva education. Among his teachers was the Hebrew writer Menahem Manus Bendetsohn. He began writing secular poetry in his youth, much to the consternation of his father, who used all means to prevent him from following the path of the Haskalah.
Allen J. Shapiro [1] (February 7, 1932—May 30, 1987), [2] better known as Al Shapiro and by his pen name A. Jay, was a gay Jewish American [3] artist active from the 1960s through 1980s. [4] [5] He is credited with the creation of the first-ever gay comic strip, The Adventures of Harry Chess: The Man from A.U.N.T.I.E. [5]
Susan Shapiro is the American author of 17 books, including The Byline Bible, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Only as Good as Your Word, Lighting Up, ...
Sumner Shapiro (January 13, 1926 – November 14, 2006) was a United States Navy rear admiral who served as Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1978 to 1982. [4] Early life and education [ edit ]