Dec 3, 2018 By: yunews
Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M.Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, presented at the conference 鈥淎merican Jews and Their (Various) Others: Sketching New Maps of Identity, Religion, Civil Religion, and Society,鈥 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. Gurock鈥檚 paper was entitled 鈥溾楪etting Along in Parkchester鈥: A New Era in Jewish-Irish Relations in New York City 1940-1970.鈥 He discussed the improvement in the previously contentious relations between the two ethnic groups and articulated the differences that remained. 鈥淭his was my first academic presentation,鈥 said Dr. Gurock, 鈥渙f 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.鈥
