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Jews in Gotham - New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 (Hardcover)
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Jews in Gotham - New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 (Hardcover)
Series: City of Promises
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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: A History of
the Jews of 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 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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