Gurock earned a bachelor's degree from theCity College of New York, and master's and doctoral degrees fromColumbia University. The title of his 1977 doctoral dissertation was "The History of the Jewish Community of Harlem, 1870-1930." He served as associate editor ofAmerican Jewish History from 1982 to 2002.
He has written over a dozen books in the field ofAmerican Jewish history. His work focuses on the AmericanOrthodox community and the variations in Orthodox practice and ritual over the course of American Jewish history. His books includeOrthodox 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, andJews in Gotham (New York University Press, 2012), which chronicles New York Jewry from 1920 to 2010.[1][2]
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism. Coauthor withJacob J. Schacter, Columbia University Press (1997)[4][5][6][7]
Ruttman, Larry (2013). "Jeffrey Gurock: Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Orthodox Jew, and Sportsman".American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball. Lincoln, Nebraska and London, England: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 429–437.ISBN978-0-8032-6475-5.
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^Starr, David B. (1998). "Review of A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism".Jewish Political Studies Review.10 (1/2):138–141.JSTOR25834422.
^Libowitz, Richard (1998). "A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (review)".Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.16 (4):110–112.doi:10.1353/sho.1998.0086.JSTOR42943988.S2CID170371494.Project MUSE472381.
