Gurock, Jeffrey S. The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community. New York University Press, 2016, pp. 320. Price: $35.00 and Tavory, Iddo. Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood. University of Chicago Press, pp. 224. Price: $27.50

In the rst six chapters of The Jews of Harlem, Gurock tells several stories stories of real estate development, the migration of Jews from the Lower East Side, Jewish institutional developments parallel and related to institutional developments on the Lower East side, Harlem initiatives important in the evolution of American Jewish life, and the opening up of new Jewish neighborhoods in the early 20th century. Even as Jews left Harlem and African Americans moved in, a remnant of Jewish residents remained, and, importantly, the neighborhood became a primary & Stuart Schoenfeld schoenfe@yorku.ca 1 York University, Toronto, Canada 123 204 S. Schoenfeld locale for cultural creativity that emerged from Jewish-African American contacts. [...]this framing highlights the fact that the Orthodox Jews of Beverly-La Brea are a minority in a neighborhood in a city that produces a very large partof the worlds popular culture. The housing shortage of World War I, the northern migration of African Americans, and the bridge building that opened up new neighborhoods all contributed to rapid movement out of a once intensely Jewish neighborhood.