Jeffrey S. Gurock
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Jeffrey S. Gurock

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Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. Gurock served from 1982-2002 as associate editor of AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY, the leading academic journal in that field and was twice chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books. His works include A MODERN HERETIC AND A TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY: MORDECAI M. KAPLAN, ORTHODOXY AND AMERICAN JUDAISM (Columbia U. Press, 1997). In 1998, A MODERN HERETIC...was awarded the bi-annual Saul Viener Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society for the best book written in that field. Gurock's, ORTHODOX JEWS IN AMERICA (Indiana U. Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the area of American Jewish Studies. His study, JEWS IN GOTHAM:NEW YORK JEWS IN A CHANGING CITY, 1920-2010 (NYU Press, 2012) received the. Everett Family Foundation Award for the best non-fiction Jewish book of 2012 from the Jewish Book Council. His most recent book is PARKCHESTER: A BRONX TALE OF RACE AND ETHNICITY (NYU Press, 2019).
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