City of promises : a history of the Jews of New York / general editor, Deborah Dash Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rock, Howard B., Author.

Contributor:

Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-

Gurock, Jeffrey S., 1949-

Polland, Annie.

Soyer, Daniel.

Rock, Howard B., 1944-

Series:

City of Promises ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--New York (State)--New York.

Jews.

New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1155 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

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

About the Authors

Front Matter 3

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-2932-0

OCLC:

811132966