A practicing attorney in Los Angeles, Fredric Brandfon is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey and was the founder of the Department of Religion at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina. He is the author of Intimate Strangers, A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome.
Fredric Brandfon
By Fredric Brandfon
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