Dec 3, 2018 By: yunews
Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M.Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, presented at the conference American Jews and Their (Various) Others: Sketching New Maps of Identity, Religion, Civil Religion, and Society, organized by - Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World and held at Hebrew University and the Van Leer Institute, both in Jerusalem, from Nov. 18-20, 2018.
Dr. Gurocks paper was entitled Getting Along in Parkchester: A New Era in Jewish-Irish Relations in New York City 1940-1970. He discussed the improvement in the previously contentious relations between the two ethnic groups and articulated the differences that remained. This was my first academic presentation, said Dr. Gurock, of a portion of my forthcoming book, Parkchester: A Bronx Tale of Race, Ethnicity and Neighborhood Continuity, that will be published by New York Uuniversity Press.
