Jeffrey S. Gurock, at The Blogs

May 14, 2024, 7:52 PM

The Oldest Living Day School Alumna, Flatbush Yeshivah , 1936

Dr. Deborah Berlinger Eiferman is a spry 101-year-old, retired psychologist, student services college administrator, and occasional professor at Brooklyn College, who is blessed with an uncommon memory for the details of her remarkable life. Just nine years ago, when...

Nov 4, 2019, 4:29 PM

The Jewishness and Legacy of a Bronx Community

For the first time in more than forty years as a historian, I have written a book where Jews are not center stage. In Parkchester: A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity, my people share the limelight with the...

About Me

I am the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and former chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. From 1982 to 2002, I served as associate editor of American Jewish History, the leading academic journal in that field. I am the author or editor of 22 books, including my most recent work, Parkchester: A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity (NYU Press).