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Howard B. Rock

Howard B. Rock is an emeritus professor of history at Florida International University. He is the author of Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865 just out from NYU Press.

  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo of B’nai Jeshurun Jono David; pamphlet cover Library of Congress; Raphall portrait from A Century of Judaism in New York by Israel Goldstein [B’nai Jeshurun, 1930])
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo of B’nai Jeshurun Jono David; pamphlet cover Library of Congress; Raphall portrait from A Century of Judaism in New York by Israel Goldstein [B’nai Jeshurun, 1930])
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    New York’s Pro-Slavery Rabbi

    Congregants gathering at the famously liberal B’nai Jeshurun may not know about a dark chapter in its past

    byHoward B. Rock
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