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Dr. Jeffrey Gurock Describes an Almost-Eden in the Bronx

By On November 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment

In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. Parkchester was celebrated as a “city within a city,” offering many of the attractions and comforts of suburbia, but without the transportation issues that plagued commuters into New York City. In this bucolic environment within Gotham, the Irish […]

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Gurock Presents at Conference

By On December 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M.Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, presented at the conference “American Jews and Their (Various) Others: Sketching New Maps of Identity, Religion, Civil Religion, and Society,” organized by Da’at Hamakom – Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and held at Hebrew University and […]

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Gurock Publishes Article on The History of Parkchester

By On June 15, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M.Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, recently published “‘Getting Along’ in Parkchester: A New Era in Jewish–Irish Relations in New York City 1940–1970” in Religions, an international, open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal. It is part of a special issue, titled “The Jewish Experience in America.”

In the […]

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Gurock Writes About Sports at Yeshiva in New Book

By On June 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, will publish a chapter about Jewish sports in New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City, edited by Stephen H. Norwood, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, which will be published in June 2018. The book is part of a […]

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Gurock to Present Two Works at “A Celebration of Jewish Books”

By On February 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, will participate in “A Celebration of Jewish Books” at The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center on Sunday, March 11, at 11 a.m. The event is organized by the Jewish Book Council, Moment magazine, PJ Library and the Jewish Women’s Archive.

The Celebration will begin with […]

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Gurock Interviewed on “Rabbi Wechsler Teaches”

By On July 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, appeared on the “Rabbi Wechsler Teaches” show on Sirius XM Stars. The show is hosted by Rabbi Harlan J. Wechsler, the founding Rabbi of Congregation Or Zarua in Manhattan. Gurock’s interview occurs about 21 minutes into the […]

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Gurock Publishes Collection of Essays

By On February 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, has just published Constant Challenge: Sports and American Judaism (Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press and The Toby Press).

The book collects nine essays that examine the challenges of sports to American Judaism and the varied responses of the American community toward […]

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Gurock to Discuss Book on Jewish Harlem at Seforim Sale

By On January 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, will be interviewed by Shulamis Hes, electronic resources and reference librarian at Yeshiva University Libraries, about his new book, The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community, on Sunday, February 12, 2017, at […]

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Gurock Featured in Hamodia Article

By On December 22, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, is interviewed in Hamodia Magazine’s “The Good Old Days Were Not So Good for Shemiras Shabbos,” a feature on the history of the five-day workweek that appeared in the magazine’s November 25 edition. In the article, Gurock discusses how Jewish immigrants struggled with […]

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Gurock’s Book Receives Greater Hudson Heritage Network Award for Excellence

By On October 27, 2015 · Leave a Comment

The Wide World of Central Synagogue (Central Synagogue, 2014), written by Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, was recently selected for a 2015 Greater Hudson Heritage Network Award for Excellence. The award celebrates works of art that display creativity and professional vision which contribute to the preservation and […]

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