Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of

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Biography

Gurock earned a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York and a master's degree from

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. He served as associate editor to ''

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'' from 1982 to 2002.

Published works

He has written over a dozen books in the field of

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. His work focuses on the American

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community and the variations in Orthodox practice and ritual over the course of American Jewish history. His books include ''Orthodox Jews in America'' (Indiana University Press, 2009), a comprehensive social and cultural history of this group and its relations to other Jews and mainstream American society, and ''Jews in Gotham'' (New York University Press, 2012), which chronicles New York Jewry from 1920 to 2010.

Awards and distinctions

For its 135th annual gala in 2015, the City College of New York honored Gurock as one of its distinguished alumni

Books

* ''A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism.'' Coauthor with

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, Columbia University Press (1997)

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