Professor jeffrey gurock yeshiva

  • Jeffrey S. Gurock is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University.
  • Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York City.
  • Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York City.

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    Jeffrey
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    Gurock

    Jeffrey S. Gurock is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at the  Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University. He has also visited at other distinguished universities such as Yale, Harvard, Temple, the College of William and Mary and the College of Charleston.  

     

    An internationally-recognized expert in the discipline of American Jewish history; with special interest in the history of American Judaism, the history of New York Jewry and Judaism and American sports. He is the author or editor of twenty-four books, including A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American Judaism (Columbia University Press) which in 1998 was awarded the Saul Viener Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society for the best book in the field. His Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City  (NYU Press) won, in 2012, the Ever

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    Jeffrey Gurock
    Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History
    Yeshiva University

    Jeffrey S. Gurock is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books and over 100 scholarly articles and reviews. In 2013, his book Jews of Gotham won the National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council. He also received national recognition for his work, A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American Judaism which won the Saul Viener Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society.

    A leader among American Jewish historians, he served for 20 years as an editor of American Jewish History, the leading journal in the field and was twice the chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the New York Academy of History.

    Selected Publications

    A Modern Heretic and a Traditio

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    Jeffrey S. Gurock

    American historian

    Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York City.

    Biography

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    Gurock earned a bachelor's grad from the City College of New York and a master's degree from Columbia University. He served as associate editor to American Jewish History from 1982 to 2002.

    Published works

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    He has written over a dozen books in the field of American Jewish history. His work focuses on the American Orthodox community and the variations in Orthodox practice and ritual over the course of American Jewish history. His books include Orthodox Jews in America (Indiana University Press, 2009), a comprehensive social and cultural history of this group and its relations to other Jews and mainstream American kultur, and Jews in Gotham (New York University Press, 2012), which chronicles New York Jewry from 1920 to 2010.[1][2]

    Awards and distinctions

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    For its 135th

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