Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010: 2

“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

“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 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!” — Thomas Kessner,Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center

“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.” ― Religious Studies Review