Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York City.
He served as associate editor to American Jewish History from 1982 to 2002.
He has written over a dozen books in the field of American Jewish history.
His books include Orthodox Jews in America (Indiana University Press, 2009), a comprehensive social and cultural history of this group and its relations to other Jews and mainstream American society, and Jews in Gotham (New York University Press, 2012), which chronicles New York Jewry from 1920 to 2010.
[1][2] For its 135th annual gala in 2015, the City College of New York honored Gurock as one of its distinguished alumni[3]