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Heinze is an author, playwright , and scholar of American History . He currently resides in New York City . Heinze grew up in Matawan, New Jersey . At age fourteen, he won a scholarship to Blair Academy in Warren County , where he graduated in 1973. He subsequently won a Bodman Foundation scholarship that enabled him to attend Amherst College , where he received his B.A. in 1977, graduating Magna Cum Laude . He attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley , receiving his M.A. in 1980 and his Ph.D. in 1987 in American History . History at a number of schools, including San Jose State University , the University of California, Davis , and the University of California, Berkeley .1From 1993-2006 he was a tenured Professor of American History at the University of San Francisco , where he was also Director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program .2His book, Adapting to Abundance (1990), was the first full-length study of the impact of American consumer culture on an immigrant group; it established his reputation as part of a scholarly vanguard that produced the first histories of mass consumption in Europe and America. His book, Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century was named one of the “Best Books of 2004” by Publishers Weekly . He was a contributing author to The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, as well as Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History. His articles have appeared in the Journal of American History , the American Quarterly , Religion and American Culture , and many other professional journals, as well as in newspapers, magazines and on-line publications. His comic observations and essays have been published in various newspapers and periodicals including The Jewish Daily Forward. In 2007, Heinze left academia, moved to New York City, and began playwriting full-time. His first full-length play, Turtles All the Way Down, although unproduced, was praised by Soho Theater in London as "an accomplished first effort...sharp and highly enjoyable... very theatrical: fast moving with lots of humour." His short comedy, " The Invention of the Living Room " was staged in 2009 at the HB Studio Theater ( NYC ). His comedy " The FQ, " a finalist in the 2010 American Globe Theatre's NYC Fifteen-Minute Play Festival, subsequently won the Festival's prize for "Audience Favorite" of 2010. Additionally, "The FQ" was awarded honorable mention in four more categories, including The Best Script of the 2010 Festival. The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb will be produced in May, 2010 at the Stone Soup Theatre ( Seattle ).3
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Heinze (born 19 January 1955) is an American playwright, non-fiction author, and scholar of American history .Growing up in New Jersey in a close-knit Jewish family, he left home at fourteen to attend Blair Academy , graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts , and moved to California .He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley , training in American History, with an emphasis on the history of race, immigration and the history of American Jews .During his academic career he taught both American and Jewish history at several American universities and was a tenured professor of History at the University of San Francisco , where he was director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program , holding the Mae and Benjamin Swig Chair and creating several new programs including an Ulpan and a Judaic studies lecture series.He has written extensively about the American Jewish social, intellectual and cultural experience, and is the author of Adapting to Abundance (1990), the first full-length study of the impact of American consumer culture on an immigrant group, as well as Jews and the American Soul (2004), which hypothesizes that Jewish intellectuals provided a framework that came to shape the American psyche.He co-authored two books that deal with race and ethnicity, and he has contributed to a wide variety of scholarly journals as well as to popular newspapers, periodicals and online publications.His books and articles have been widely reviewed, praised in the scholarly community, and cited extensively.In 2006, feeling creatively stifled by the confines of academic writing , he left his tenured full professorship at USF and moved to New York City to begin playwriting.He has written one-act as well as full-length plays, many of them focusing on the historical and Jewish themes that had absorbed him in his former career; these include a comedy about Moses and his family, a drama about a New York Jewish family adjusting to life after World War II , and a drama about an Israeli Russian immigrant who, in desperation, has turned to prostitution.His plays have been produced Off-Broadway in New York City and around the United States; several have won awards in national playwriting competitions.
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Heinze (born 19 January 1955) is an American playwright, non-fiction author, and scholar of American history . Growing up in New Jersey in a close-knit Jewish family, he left home at fourteen to attend Blair Academy , graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts , and moved to California . He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley , training in American history, with an emphasis on the history of race, immigration and the history of American Jews . During his academic career he taught both American and Jewish history at several American universities and was a tenured professor of history at the University of San Francisco , where he was director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program , holding the Mae and Benjamin Swig Chair and creating several new programs including an Ulpan and a Judaic studies lecture series. He has written extensively about the American Jewish social, intellectual and cultural experience, and is the author of Adapting to Abundance (1990), the first full-length study of the impact of American consumer culture on an immigrant group, as well as Jews and the American Soul (2004), which hypothesizes that Jewish intellectuals provided a framework that came to shape the American psyche. He co-authored two books that deal with race and ethnicity, and he has contributed to a wide variety of scholarly journals as well as to popular newspapers, periodicals and online publications. His books and articles have been widely reviewed, praised in the scholarly community, and cited extensively. In 2006, feeling creatively stifled by the confines of academic writing , he left his tenured full professorship at USF and moved to New York City to begin playwriting. He has written one-act as well as full-length plays, many of them focusing on the historical and Jewish themes that had absorbed him in his former career; these include a comedy about Moses and his family, a drama about a New York Jewish family adjusting to life after World War II , and a drama about an Israeli Russian immigrant who, in desperation, has turned to prostitution. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway in New York City and around the United States; several have won awards in national playwriting competitions.
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Heinze (born 1955) is an American playwright, non-fiction author, and scholar of American history . Growing up in New Jersey in a close-knit Jewish family, he left home at fourteen to attend Blair Academy , graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts , and moved to California . He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley , training in American history, with an emphasis on the history of race, immigration and the history of American Jews . During his academic career he taught both American and Jewish history at several American universities and was a tenured professor of history at the University of San Francisco , where he was director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program , holding the Mae and Benjamin Swig Chair and creating several new programs including an Ulpan and a Judaic studies lecture series. He has written extensively about the American Jewish social, intellectual and cultural experience, and is the author of Adapting to Abundance (1990), the first full-length study of the impact of American consumer culture on an immigrant group, as well as Jews and the American Soul (2004), which hypothesizes that Jewish intellectuals provided a framework that came to shape the American psyche. He co-authored two books that deal with race and ethnicity, and he has contributed to a wide variety of scholarly journals as well as to popular newspapers, periodicals and online publications. His books and articles have been widely reviewed, praised in the scholarly community, and cited extensively. In 2006, feeling creatively stifled by the confines of academic writing , he left his tenured full professorship at USF and moved to New York City to begin playwriting. He has written one-act as well as full-length plays, many of them focusing on the historical and Jewish themes that had absorbed him in his former career; these include a comedy about Moses and his family, a drama about a New York Jewish family adjusting to life after World War II , and a drama about an Israeli Russian immigrant who, in desperation, has turned to prostitution. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway in New York City and around the United States; several have won awards in national playwriting competitions.
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