Howard B. Rock

City of Promises (eBook, PDF)

A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

* "e;Bold, well-researched and beautifully-illustrated... A remarkable accomplishment."e; - Jonathan D. Sarna, Chief Historian, National Museum of American Jewish History nbsp; "e;Prodigious research and lucid prose."e; - Hasla R. Diner, Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History nbsp; "e;A riveting account Polland and Soyer bring the city's spaces to life."e; - Beth S. Wenger, Director, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania nbsp; "e;Masterful and sensitively drawn a penetrating blend of distinguished scholarship and acute observation A vivid, richly detailed, and endlessly fascinating narrative Balanced, engrossing, and learned. Read and enjoy!"e; - Thomas Kessner, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate School nbsp; "e;Lively, much-needed All three volumes are briskly paced, well-researched and insightful."e; - Starred Kirkus nbsp; "e;A highly valuable and vastly immersing study."e; - Publishers Weekly nbsp; "e;An important contribution to our understanding of New York's Jews."e; - The Buffalo Jewish Review nbsp; "e;Will long remain an invaluable resource."e; - Choice "e;A whopping big yarn, a moveable feast of a story."e; - Jewish Review of Books

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 1000
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814729328
• Artikelnr.: 53187680

Autorenporträt

Howard B. Rock (Author) Howard B. Rock is Professor of History Emeritus at Florida International University. He is the 2012 runner-up for the Dixon Ryan Manuscript Award presented by the New York State Historical Association, for Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865. He is also the author or editor of five other books. Deborah Dash Moore (Author) Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano (NYU, 2022), Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of A City and A People (NYU, 2020), City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York (NYU, 2012), and GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (Harvard, 2006). Jeffrey S. Gurock (Author) Jeffrey S. Gurock is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. He has written or edited 25 books, including Jews in Gotham, which in 2012 was honored as Winner, Everett Family Foundation Award, Jewish Book of the Year, Jewish Book Council. Annie Polland (Author) Annie Polland is Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. She was previously Executive Vice President for Programs and Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where she authored, Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue. Daniel Soyer (Author) 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. Diana L. Linden (Author) Diana L. Linden is author of Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene and co-editor of The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere