Talk:Marc B. Shapiro

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Is there any reason this page only includes links to Shapiro articles? Some of them are responses to critiques. Shouldn't those original critiques be included too? Costatitanica (talk) 21:56, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Attacks On Leading Rabbis" section

Is there a reason the entire "Attacks On Leading Rabbis" section was deleted? It was properly sourced and is an important part of Shapiro's work. I'm also wondering why valid and sourced criticisms were removed. High Leader (talk) 23:33, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You can always revert the edit & see if it'll invoke a response. If it goes unanswered, as your comment here has for 7 years, your edit would prevail. Amaaretz (talk) 01:46, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Writing" Section: Reference to Yair Hoffman's Negative "Review"

The reference remains live on the page. I wonder if it should be removed. On the one hand, it is indeed Hoffman's "review" of Shapiro's Changing the Immutable. On the other hand, the review, and the specific section cited, is based on the blatant straw-man that the thesis of Shapiro's book was that Haredi censorship has "gone too far". Hoffman argues that Shapiro should not have cited certain examples of censorship because, in Hoffman's view, they were justified. In reality, Hoffman's approach is precisely the target of Shapiro's thesis: The rewriting and re-framing of "Haredi" history; "judging" the previous generations and re-framing their sensibilities and actions to "justify" them to today's Haredi public.

Given the extremely poor quality of Hoffman's review, I am unsure if it merits being cited as the example of criticism of Shapiro. If no one replies with their opinion, I will probably delete it. It would be "justified". :) Amaaretz (talk) 01:53, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]