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The definitive record of Jews in NY and how they altered the city Predicated on the acclaimed multi-volume series, City of Assurances: A History of the Jews of NY, Jewish New York shows the multifaceted world of 1 of the city's most important ethnic and spiritual communities. Spanning three ages, Jewish New York traces the earliest entrance of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the ex - Soviet Union. Jewish immigrants altered NY. They built its clothing industry and produced huge swaths of apartment buildings. NY Jews helped to make metropolis the guts of the nation's posting industry and molded popular culture in music, movie theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of sociable justice, a devotion to civil rights and civil liberties, and a perception in the work of federal to provide sociable welfare for everyone its citizens, NY Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a fresh wave of sociable activism. In turn, NY altered Judaism and activated spiritual pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city's neighborhoods managed unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim. Jewish New York not only details Jews' many positive influences on NY, but also exposes the group's battles with poverty and anti-Semitism. These injustices strengthened an exemplary commitment to remaking NY into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multi-religious world city.
