{"product_id":"city-of-promises-a-history-of-the-jews-of-new-york-3-volume-box-set-boxed-set","title":"City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, 3-Volume Box Set - Boxed Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward B. Rock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDeborah Dash Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey S. Gurock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, presented by the National Jewish Book Council\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew 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: A History of the Jews of 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume I, Haven of Liberty, by historian Howard B. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverseen 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward B. Rock (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHoward B. Rock \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History Emeritus at Florida International University. He is the 2012 runner-up for the Dixon Ryan Manuscript Award presented by the New York State Historical Association, for \u003ci\u003eHaven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author or editor of five other books. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Dash Moore (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDeborah Dash Moore\u003c\/b\u003e is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eGI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWalkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Mid-Century New York.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey S. Gurock (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJeffrey S. Gurock\u003c\/b\u003e is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. He has written or edited 25 books, including \u003ci\u003eJews in Gotham\u003c\/i\u003e, which in 2012 was honored as Winner, Everett Family Foundation Award, Jewish Book of the Year, Jewish Book Council. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnie Polland (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnnie Polland\u003c\/b\u003e is Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. She was previously Executive Vice President for Programs and Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where she authored, \u003ci\u003eLandmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Soyer (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDaniel Soyer \u003c\/b\u003eteaches history at Fordham University in the Bronx. He is the author of the prize-winning Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, and co-editor and translator of My Future is in America: East European Jewish Immigrant Autobiographies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiana L. Linden (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDiana L. 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