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Morris S. Schwartz (December 20, 1916 – November 4, 1995) [1] was an American professor of sociology at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie , written by Mitch Albom , a former student of Schwartz.
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson is a 1997 memoir by American author Mitch Albom.The book is about a series of visits Albom made to his former Brandeis University sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz was dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Morris Schwartz (April 3, 1901 – October 22, 2004) was an American photographic inventor, photographer and businessman. Born in Russia , Schwartz went to the United States in 1906 with his family, [ 1 ] including his father Kalman and brother Hy. [ 2 ]
Morris Zoltan Schwartz AM (born 1948) is an Australian publisher, formerly a property developer, based in Melbourne. He is the owner of Schwartz Publishing , the publisher of the influential Quarterly Essay , The Monthly , and The Saturday Paper .
Allen G. Schwartz – U.S. federal judge; Morrie Schwartz – sociologist, author, and subject of Tuesdays with Morrie; Philip Selznick 1938 - sociologist, organizational theorist; Assata Shakur – civil rights activist; involved in May 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in which a state trooper was killed; Moses J. Stroock 1886 – lawyer
Mike Schwartz (1950–2013), American anti-abortion activist. [ 258 ] Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995), American sociology professor, subject of Tuesdays with Morrie .
Morris Schwartz: 1901–2004: 103: Russian-American photographer, inventor and businessman [82] Carl J. Shapiro: 1913–2021: 108: American businessman and philanthropist [83] [84] Sir Run Run Shaw: 1907–2014: 106: Hong Kong media mogul [85] Hermann von Siemens: 1885–1986: 101: German industrialist [86] Robert E. Simon: 1914–2015: 101 ...
He was also a highly regarded theater actor. Until shortly before his death, he was seen on stage at the Repertory Philippines as Morrie Schwartz in a play based on Mitch Albom's book Tuesdays With Morrie, [6] and in Nick Joaquin's A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino. [7]