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Welcome
Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University . He is the author or editor of fourteen books. His works include A MODERN HERETIC AND A TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY:MORDECAI M. KAPLAN, ORTHODOXY AND AMERICAN JUDAISM ( Columbia U. Press, 1997). In 1998, A MODERN HERETIC...was awarded the bi-annual Saul Viener Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society for the best book written in that field. Gurock served from 1982-2002 as associate editor of AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY, the leading academic journal in that field. He is also a former chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society Gurock's latest book,JUDAISM'S ENCOUNTER WITH AMERICAN SPORTS was published in 2005 by Indiana University Press.
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Coming in February from Indiana University Press, Orthodox Jews in America - the first comprehensive history of the many ways Orthodox men and women have interacted with each other, with other Jews and the American environment as they coped with religious freedom, economic opportunity and social acceptance.
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Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History
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