He has written over a dozen books in the field of
American Jewish history. His work focuses on the American
Orthodox 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.[1][2]
Awards and distinctions
For its 135th annual gala in 2015, the City College of New York honored Gurock as one of its distinguished alumni[3]
Books
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism. Coauthor with
Jacob J. Schacter, Columbia University Press (1997)[4][5][6][7]
Further reading
Ruttman, Larry (2013). "Jeffrey Gurock: Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Orthodox Jew, and Sportsman". American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball. Lincoln, Nebraska and London, England: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 429–437.
ISBN978-0-8032-6475-5.
^Shargel, Baila R. (1999). "Review of A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism". American Jewish History. 87 (4): 404–408.
doi:
10.1353/ajh.1999.0043.
JSTOR23886240.
S2CID162229017.
^Goldsmith, Emanuel S. (1999). "Review of A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism". AJS Review. 24 (1): 171–174.
doi:
10.1017/S0364009400011181.
JSTOR1486540.
S2CID162231756.
^Starr, David B. (1998). "Review of A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism". Jewish Political Studies Review. 10 (1/2): 138–141.
JSTOR25834422.
^Libowitz, Richard (1998). "A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 16 (4): 110–112.
doi:
10.1353/sho.1998.0086.
JSTOR42943988.
S2CID170371494.
Project MUSE472381.