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City of Promises Ser.: Jews in Gotham : New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 by Jeffrey S. Gurock (2013, Hardcover)
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Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock. Title: Jews in Gotham. Subtitle: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010. Series: City of Promises. Format: Hardback. Topic: Social Sciences, History. Item Length: 153mm.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-100814732259
ISBN-139780814732250
eBay Product ID (ePID)167413856
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameJews in Gotham : New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Sociology / Urban, Jewish
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
AuthorJeffrey S. Gurock
SeriesCity of Promises Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight25.2 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-003246
Reviews"Jeffrey Gurock's masterful and sensitively drawnsurvey offers a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation from someone who has lived the life and knows well its complexities and nuances. Drawing upon a wide range of opinions and shades of Jewishness, he has fashioned a vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrativeabout variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis.Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!" -Thomas Kessner,Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center, "Jeffrey Gurock's masterful and sensitively drawn survey offers a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation from someone who has lived the life and knows well its complexities and nuances. Drawing upon a wide range of opinions and shades of Jewishness, he has fashioned a vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative about variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis. Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!" -Thomas Kessner,Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center, "In 1960, Fortune magazine published an article that trumpeted the 'Jewish élan' of New York City, and credited the Jewish community with contributing 'mightily to the city's dramatic character - its excitement, its originality, its stridency, its unexpectedness.' In his exhaustive history of Jews in New York from 1920 to the present, Gurock covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist conviction and Zionism. In the 1920s, Jews continued to settle in clusters, mostly on the Lower East Side and in socialist cooperative housing in the Bronx. From there, Gurock sketches a map of the Jewish community's sprawl: Orthodox Jews of Eastern Europe across Brooklyn, Sephardim in Flatbush and Bensonhurst, German Jews in Washington Heights and Yorkville, and an increasingly affluent mix on the West Side of Manhattan and in Jackson Heights and Forest Hills, Queens. After World War II, Hasidic sects established themselves in Williamsburg and Crown Heights, in a concentration that homogenized previous divisions. Groups that 'had once sprawled from Bratislava to Odessa were now located a few streets from one another.' Many areas suffered from poverty and crime, which increased racial tensions, and in 1964, race riots broke out. Anecdotes embroider and occasionally deepen his broad sweep: Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story,' for example, was initially about Italian Catholics and Jews (he later replaced the Jewish family with a Puerto Rican one)."-Anna Altman, New York Times, In 1900, the Jewish population of New York was despised, impoverished, and ghettoized.A century later, it had become the most accomplished, the most prosperous, and the most successful ethnic group in the nation. This is the story of that journey and that achievement, and no one has told it with more authority and sensitivity than Jeffrey Gurock.And as they used to say on the subway advertisement, you don't have to be Jewish to love this book., "Jeffrey Gurock's masterful and sensitively drawn survey offers a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation from someone who has lived the life and knows well its complexities and nuances. Drawing upon a wide range of opinions and shades of Jewishness, he has fashioned a vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative about variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis. Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!" -Thomas Kessner, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate School "In 1900, the Jewish population of New York was despised, impoverished, and ghettoized. A century later, it had become the most accomplished, the most prosperous, and the most successful ethnic group in the nation. This is the story of that journey and that achievement, and no one has told it with more authority and sensitivity than Jeffrey Gurock. And as they used to say on the subway advertisement, you don't have to be Jewish to love this book." -Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopdia of New York City, "In his exhaustive history of Jews in New York from 1920 to present, Gurock covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist conviction and Zionism." - Anna Altman,, ""Jeffrey Gurocks masterful and sensitively drawnsurvey offers a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation from someone who has lived the life and knows well its complexities and nuances. Drawing upon a wide range of opinions and shades of Jewishness, he has fashioned a vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrativeabout variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis.Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!", "You don't have to live in New York, or even have visited, to enjoy the book. Gurock intermingles much of the narrative with anecdotes and interesting data."-Burton Boxerman, St. Louis Jewish Light, "Jeffrey Gurock's masterful and sensitively drawn survey offers a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation from someone who has lived the life and knows well its complexities and nuances. Drawing upon a wide range of opinions and shades of Jewishness, he has fashioned a vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative about variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis. Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!" -Thomas Kessner,Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate School, Gurocks analysis of Jewish New Yorkers as they migrated out of and up from downtown tenements to & subway suburbs'to suburbia will be of much use to students and scholars of ethnicity, urban studies, Jewish history and, of course, all those interested in The City, New York., "In 1960, Fortune magazine published an article that trumpeted the 'Jewish lan' of New York City, and credited the Jewish community with contributing 'mightily to the city's dramatic character - its excitement, its originality, its stridency, its unexpectedness.' In his exhaustive history of Jews in New York from 1920 to the present, Gurock covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist conviction and Zionism. In the 1920s, Jews continued to settle in clusters, mostly on the Lower East Side and in socialist cooperative housing in the Bronx. From there, Gurock sketches a map of the Jewish community's sprawl: Orthodox Jews of Eastern Europe across Brooklyn, Sephardim in Flatbush and Bensonhurst, German Jews in Washington Heights and Yorkville, and an increasingly affluent mix on the West Side of Manhattan and in Jackson Heights and Forest Hills, Queens. After World War II, Hasidic sects established themselves in Williamsburg and Crown Heights, in a concentration that homogenized previous divisions. Groups that 'had once sprawled from Bratislava to Odessa were now located a few streets from one another.' Many areas suffered from poverty and crime, which increased racial tensions, and in 1964, race riots broke out. Anecdotes embroider and occasionally deepen his broad sweep: Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story,' for example, was initially about Italian Catholics and Jews (he later replaced the Jewish family with a Puerto Rican one)."-Anna Altman, New York Times, "In 1960, Fortune magazine published an article that trumpeted the "Jewish élan" of New York City, and credited the Jewish community with contributing "mightily to the city's dramatic character - its excitement, its originality, its stridency, its unexpectedness." In his exhaustive history of Jews in New York from 1920 to the present, Gurock covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist conviction and Zionism. In the 1920s, Jews continued to settle in clusters, mostly on the Lower East Side and in socialist cooperative housing in the Bronx. From there, Gurock sketches a map of the Jewish community's sprawl: Orthodox Jews of Eastern Europe across Brooklyn, Sephardim in Flatbush and Bensonhurst, German Jews in Washington Heights and Yorkville, and an increasingly affluent mix on the West Side of Manhattan and in Jackson Heights and Forest Hills, Queens. After World War II, Hasidic sects established themselves in Williamsburg and Crown Heights, in a concentration that homogenized previous divisions. Groups that "had once sprawled from Bratislava to Odessa were now located a few streets from one another." Many areas suffered from poverty and crime, which increased racial tensions, and in 1964, race riots broke out. Anecdotes embroider and occasionally deepen his broad sweep: Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story," for example, was initially about Italian Catholics and Jews (he later replaced the Jewish family with a Puerto Rican one)."- New York Times ,, "In 1900, the Jewish population of New York was despised, impoverished, and ghettoized. A century later, it had become the most accomplished, the most prosperous, and the most successful ethnic group in the nation. This is the story of that journey and that achievement, and no one has told it with more authority and sensitivity than Jeffrey Gurock. And as they used to say on the subway advertisement, you don't have to be Jewish to love this book." -Kenneth T. Jackson,editor-in-chief, The Encyclopdia of New York City, In 1960, Fortune magazine published an article that trumpeted the 'Jewish élan' of New York City, and credited the Jewish community with contributing 'mightily to the citys dramatic character its excitement, its originality, its stridency, its unexpectedness.' In his exhaustive history of Jews in New York from 1920 to the present, Gurock covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist conviction and Zionism. In the 1920s, Jews continued to settle in clusters, mostly on the Lower East Side and in socialist cooperative housing in the Bronx. From there, Gurock sketches a map of the Jewish communitys sprawl: Orthodox Jews of Eastern Europe across Brooklyn, Sephardim in Flatbush and Bensonhurst, German Jews in Washington Heights and Yorkville, and an increasingly affluent mix on the West Side of Manhattan and in Jackson Heights and Forest Hills, Queens. After World War II, Hasidic sects established themselves in Williamsburg and Crown Heights, in a concentration that homogenized previous divisions. Groups that 'had once sprawled from Bratislava to Odessa were now located a few streets from one another.' Many areas suffered from poverty and crime, which increased racial tensions, and in 1964, race riots broke out. Anecdotes embroider and occasionally deepen his broad sweep: Leonard Bernsteins 'West Side Story,' for example, was initially about Italian Catholics and Jews (he later replaced the Jewish family with a Puerto Rican one)., You don't have to live in New York, or even have visited, to enjoy the book. Gurock intermingles much of the narrative with anecdotes and interesting data., "Jeffrey Gurock's masterful and sensitively drawn survey offers a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation from someone who has lived the life and knows well its complexities and nuances. Drawing upon a wide range of opinions and shades of Jewishness, he has fashioned a vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative about variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis. Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!" -Thomas Kessner, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate School "In 1900, the Jewish population of New York was despised, impoverished, and ghettoized. A century later, it had become the most accomplished, the most prosperous, and the most successful ethnic group in the nation. This is the story of that journey and that achievement, and no one has told it with more authority and sensitivity than Jeffrey Gurock. And as they used to say on the subway advertisement, you don't have to be Jewish to love this book." -Kenneth T. Jackson,editor-in-chief, The Encyclopdia of New York City, "Gurock's analysis of Jewish New Yorkers as they migrated out of and up from downtown tenements to 'subway suburbs' to suburbia will be of much use to students and scholars of ethnicity, urban studies, Jewish history and, of course, all those interested in The City, New York."- Religious Studies Review, "In 1900, the Jewish population of New York was despised, impoverished, and ghettoized.A century later, it had become the most accomplished, the most prosperous, and the most successful ethnic group in the nation. This is the story of that journey and that achievement, and no one has told it with more authority and sensitivity than Jeffrey Gurock.And as they used to say on the subway advertisement, you don't have to be Jewish to love this book." -Kenneth T. Jackson,editor-in-chief, The Encyclopdia of New York City, "Jeffrey Gurock's masterful and sensitively drawn survey offers a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation from someone who has lived the life and knows well its complexities and nuances. Drawing upon a wide range of opinions and shades of Jewishness, he has fashioned a vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative about variegated Jewish life in the iconic diaspora metropolis. Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!" -Thomas Kessner,Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center, "In 1900, the Jewish population of New York was despised, impoverished, and ghettoized. A century later, it had become the most accomplished, the most prosperous, and the most successful ethnic group in the nation. This is the story of that journey and that achievement, and no one has told it with more authority and sensitivity than Jeffrey Gurock. And as they used to say on the subway advertisement, you don't have to be Jewish to love this book." -Kenneth T. Jackson,editor-in-chief, The Encyclopdia of New York City
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number2
Number of Volumes3 vols.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.8924074710904
SynopsisFollows the Jewish saga in New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This book details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments of the past century., Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments of the past century. It shows convincingly that New York retained its preeminence as the capital of American Jews because of deep roots in local worlds.
LC Classification NumberF128.9.J5C64 2012
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