Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, presented by the
National Jewish Book Council Best Nonfiction Book of 2012 presented
by Kirkus Vol. I, Haven of Liberty, 2012 Runner-Up for the Dixon
Ryan Manuscript Award presented by the New York Historical
Association New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture,
economy and politics of America's greatest city, has eluded the
grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive
history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises:
The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume set of original
research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban
community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important
in the modern world. Volume I, Haven of Liberty, by historian
Howard Rock, chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York
(then New Amsterdam) in 1654and highlights their political and
economic challenges. Overcoming significant barriers, colonial and
republican Jews in New York laid the foundations for the
development of a thriving community. Volume II, Emerging
Metropolis, written by Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer, describes
New York's transformation into a Jewish city. Focusing on the urban
Jewish built environment--its tenements and banks, synagogues and
shops, department stores and settlement houses--it conveys the
extraordinary complexity of Jewish immigrant society. Volume III,
Jews in Gotham, by historian Jeffrey S.Gurock, highlights
neighborhood life as the city's distinctive feature. New York
retained its preeminence as the capital of American Jews because of
deep roots in local worlds that supported vigorous political,
religious, and economic diversity. Each volume includes a "visual
essay" by art historian Diana Linden interpreting aspects of life
for New York's Jews from their arrival until today. These
illustrated sections, many in color, illuminate Jewish material
culture and feature reproductions of early colonial portraits, art,
architecture, as well as everyday culture and community. Overseen
by noted scholar Deborah Dash Moore, City of Promises offers the
largest Jewish city in the world, in the United States, and in
Jewish history its first comprehensive account.
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