Alexander Greendale

Greendale was an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Adelphi University.^[2] He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1942.^[1] He was the director of the housing division of the American Jewish Committee from 1970 to 1977, when he became the executive director of the West Side Jewish Community Council.^[2] In 1972, he became the vice president of the Inter-religious New Communities Coalition, an organization whose aim was to build new towns in Israel.^[3] He edited two books about housing.^[2]

Greendale authored over 70 plays,^[2] including Dark Clouds, Buried Height, Fingers in the Fog, Little Italy, and Walk Into My Parlor.^[1]

With his wife Ziva, Greendale had a son and a daughter. They resided in Brooklyn.^[2]

Greendale died on August 21, 1981, in New York City, aged 71.^[1]