Benjamin Shapell Author

Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and is generally regarded as one of the most prominent historians of American Jewish history, religion, and life. Benjamin Shapell is the founder of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation. Shapell has initiated and overseen the creation of publications, exhibitions, and films relating to the central themes of the Foundation's collection of original manuscripts.