Deborah Dash Moore
City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York (NYU Press, $99), overseen by Deborah Dash Moore, is a sweeping three-volume chronicle of the Jewish experience in the largest Jewish city in the world. Beginning in 1654, when 23 Dutch Jews first set eyes on the colony of New Amsterdam right through until today, City of Promises uses original research and illustrations in this path-breaking interpretation of the Jewish and American experience. “A highly valuable and vastly immersing study of how New York came to be considered a Jewish city.”—Publishers Weekly. Moore is a professor of history and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
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