Honorees
"City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York," 3-volume box set
- Item Number
- 124
- Estimated Value
- 125 USD
- Sold
- 300 USD to Live Event Bidder
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Overseen by noted scholar andone of the Foundation for Jewish Culture's 2013 honorees Deborah Dash Moore, City of Promises: A History of the Jewish of New York pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and the most important in the world.
Volume I, Haven of Liberty, by historian Howard Rock, chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York (then New Amsterdam) in 1654 and 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.
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