City of Promises: The History of Jews in New York

Historians Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan), general editor of the City of Promises project, will be joined by historians Howard B. Rock (Florida International University), Annie Polland (Lower East Side Tenement Museum), Daniel Soyer (Fordham University), and Jeffrey Gurock (Yeshiva University) to discuss the new three-volume set of original research, City of Promises: The History of Jews in New York (NYU Press). New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy, and politics of America's greatest city, have eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of Jews in New York has ever been written. City of Promises pioneers an interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world. Book signing to follow.