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Strength in Numbers // Jeffrey S. Gurock
For one in four New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century, Jewish identity was in the streets they walked and the air they breathed. In the intensely homey atmosphere of Gotham, formal religious affiliation was not a necessary ingredient of being Jewish. But when fifty years later, Jews moved to the suburbs, their need for touchstone institutions grew – almost in inverse proportion to the Jewishness of their surroundings
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My Son, the Gangster //
Robert Rockaway
New York’s Jewish gangsters lived fast and furious. Exploiting the criminal opportunities created by Prohibition, they masterminded a network of crime that spread far beyond New York and earned their fellow Jews’ scorn – and admiration
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No Business Like Show Business // Yuval Rivlin
Broadway was a springboard to integration for talented Jewish arrivals from Europe, yet their musicals’ immigrant themes are unmistakenable
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Ticket to Riches // Rebecca Kobrin
East European Jews and the Business of Mass Migration, 1873-1914
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Jewish as Can Be // Rachel Gordan
Are New York’s Jews opting for more Judaism or less? Is their Jewishness nothing more than an ethnicity summed up by bagels and borscht, or is the growing visibility of ultra-orthodox communities an indication of future trends? The range of choices for Jews in New York has never been wider
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Jew in the City // Jo Morris
A Mannhattan exhibition chronicles the lively symbolisisof NYC and its Jewish population
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Book review
Koren Talmud Bavli – Berakhot // Michael Goldblum
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