“Getting Along" in Parkchester: A New Era in Jewish-Irish Relations in New York City, 1940-1970,

• In Event: Jews and their Ethnic Neighbors in 20th Century New York:Images and Attitudes

Abstract

Jeffrey S. Gurock takes the story of Jewish-Irish attitudes and neighborhood interaction well beyond the geographical and chronological limits of the Lower East Side of the early 20th century. He identifies the set of social, economic and ecological factors that led to Hebrews and Hibernians living rather harmoniously. Gurock argues that what took place on the streets and in the buildings in a new New York community of Parkchester from the 1940s-1970s constituted the beginnings of a new era in inter-group relations

Author

• Jeffrey S. Gurock, Yeshiva University