Deborah Dash Moore, Author Free Press $24.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-02-922111-2
Joining the great postwar migrations from the Northeast and the Midwest to Los Angeles and Miami were large numbers of Jews from Chicago and New York. Cut loose from their ties to the old European religious cultures of their families, these ``permane
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Deborah Dash Moore, Author Belknap Press $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-674-01509-8
Serving in WWII made American Jewish soldiers feel both more Jewish and more American, writes historian Moore (At Home in America, etc.) in this insightful study. Relying mainly on memoirs and oral interviews of 15 veterans, Moore shows how many of...
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Deborah Dash Moore et al.. New York Univ, $30 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4798-5038-9
Moore, professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, seamlessly synthesizes the work of several colleagues (originally presented in the three-volume City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York) to provide a...
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Deborah Dash Moore. Three Hills, $36.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5017-6847-7
In this luminous collection, historian Moore (Urban Origins of American Judaism) spotlights the work of Jewish members of the 1936–1951 New York Photo League, who captured the “eye-level” interactions that played out in the city’s streets, alleys,...
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