Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.                          Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism.  In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city’s neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim.    Jewish New York not only describes Jews’ many positive influences on New York, but also exposes the group’s struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism.  These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious world city.  
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Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.                          Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism.  In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city’s neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim.    Jewish New York not only describes Jews’ many positive influences on New York, but also exposes the group’s struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism.  These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious world city.  
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Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People

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The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.                          Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism.  In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city’s neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim.    Jewish New York not only describes Jews’ many positive influences on New York, but also exposes the group’s struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism.  These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious world city.  

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781479864478
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/10/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 389,395
File size: 162 MB
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About the Author

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An historian of American Jews, she has published an acclaimed trilogy examining the years from 1920 to 1960, including the experience of Jewish soldiers in World War II. Her work regularly garners awards.


Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. A prize-winning author, he has written or edited fifteen books in American Jewish history. Gurock has served as chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and as associate editor of American Jewish History. He lives with his family in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
Annie Polland is Senior Vice President for Programs and Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
Howard B. Rock is a Professor of History Emeritus at Florida International University. He is winner of the 2012  Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award, National Jewish Book Council and the 2012 Runner-Up for the Dixon Ryan Manuscript Award presented by the New York Historical Association for Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865.


A native New Yorker, Daniel Soyer teaches history at  Fordham University in the Bronx. He is the author of the prize-winning Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, and co-editor and translator of My Future Is in America: East European Jewish Immigrant Autobiographies. He lives in Brooklyn.
Diana L. Linden is an art historian who has taught at Pitzer College and the University of Southern California and served as Museum Educator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Table of Contents

Map of New York City, 1911 viii

Introduction; How New York Became a Jewish City 1

Part I 1654-1865

1 Foundations 11

2 Shaking Off Constraints 39

Part II 1865-1925

3 One City, Two Jewish Worlds 77

4 Forging Community 101

5 The Power of Politics 155

Part III 1885-1975

6 Jewish Geography 189

7 Raising Two Generations 211

8 Making New York Jews 239

9 Wars on the Home Front 261

Part IV 1960-2015

10 Old Turf, New Turf 287

11 A Changing City 323

Visual Essay: An Introduction to the Visual and Material Culture of New York City Jews, 1654-2015, by Diana L. Linden 349

Acknowledgments 405

Notes 409

Select Bibliography 467

Index 485

About the Authors 499

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