City of Promises : A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set / Howard B. Rock, Deborah Dash Moore, Diana L. Linden, Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer, Jeffrey S. Gurock.
Rock, Howard B., author.; Dash Moore, Deborah, contributor.; Gurock, Jeffrey S., author.; Linden, Diana L., author.; Linden, Diana L., contributor.; Moore, Deborah Dash, author.; Soyer, Daniel, author.
2012
F128.9.J5 C64 2012
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City of Promises : A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set / Howard B. Rock, Deborah Dash Moore, Diana L. Linden, Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer, Jeffrey S. Gurock.
Author
Rock, Howard B., author.
ISBN
9780814729328
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814729328.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814729328.001.0001 doi
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F128.9.J5 C64 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.892/40747
Summary
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: The History of the Jews in 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 I, Haven of Liberty, by historian Howard Rock, chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York (then New Amsterdam) in 1654and highlights their political and economic challenges. Overcoming significant barriers, colonial and republican Jews in New York laid the foundations for the development of a thriving community.Volume II, Emerging Metropolis, written by Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer, describes New York's transformation into a Jewish city. Focusing on the urban Jewish built environment-its tenements and banks, synagogues and shops, department stores and settlement houses-it conveys the extraordinary complexity of Jewish immigrant society.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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Dash Moore, Deborah, contributor.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., author.
Linden, Diana L., author.
Linden, Diana L., contributor.
Moore, Deborah Dash, author.
Soyer, Daniel, author.
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City of Promises ; ; 3
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New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Foreword
General Editor's Acknowledgments
Author's Acknowledgments
Prologue: Neighborhood Dreams and Urban Promises
1. Building and Sustaining Common Ground
2. Friends or Ideologues
3. During Catastrophe and Triumph
4. Élan of a Jewish City
5. Crises and Contention
6. Amid Decline and Revival
6. Renewed Activism
Epilogue: In a New Millennium
Visual Essay: An Introduction to the Visual and Material Culture of New York City Jews, 1920 - 2010
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Front Matter 2
CONTENTS
Foreword
General Editor's Acknowledgments
Authors' Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Emerging Jewish Metropolis
1. Neighborhood Networks
2. "Radical Reform": Union through Charity
3. Moorish Manhattan
4. Immigrant Citadels: Tenements, Shops, Stores, and Streets
5. Capital of the Jewish World
6. Jews at the Polls: Th e Rise of the Jewish Style in New York Politics
7. Jews and New York Culture
Conclusion: The Jewish Metropolis at the End of the Immigrant Era
Visual Essay: An Introduction to the Visual and Material Culture of New York City Jews, 1840-1920
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Front Matter 3
CONTENTS
Foreword
General Editor's Acknowledgments
Author's Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Dutch Beginning
2. A Merchant Community
3. A Synagogue Community
4. The Jewish Community and the American Revolution
5. The Jewish Community of Republican New York
6. A Republican Faith
7. New York's Republican Rabbi and His Congregation
8. Beyond the Synagogue in Antebellum New York
9. Division, Display, Devotion, and Defense: Th e Synagogue in Antebellum New York
10. The Challenge of Reform
11. Politics, Race, and the Civil War
Conclusion
Visual Essay: An Introduction to the Visual and Material Culture of New York City Jews, 1654 - 1865
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