Joshua M. Zeitz - White Ethnic New York

TABLE 1. Jewish, Italian, and Irish Population of New York City, 19401980,

TABLE 2. Indexes of Dissimilarity between Selected Ethnicities and Races, Total New York-Northeastern New Jersey Standard Consolidated Area and New York Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area,

TABLE 3. Occupations of First-and Second-Generation New York Males, 1950,

TABLE 4. Occupations of First-and Second-Generation New York Males, 1960,

TABLE 5. Generation and Parochial School Attendance among U.S. Catholics, 19 61,

TABLE 6. Catholic Schooling among Italian American New Yorkers, 1969,

TABLE 7. Percentage of U.S. Catholics Giving Orthodox Response to Issues of Doctrine and Religious Knowledge by Educational Background, 1961,

TABLE 8. Hebrew Proficiency Test (1953) Average Percentages of Correct Responses by Grade Level,

TABLE 9. Electoral Support for Franklin Roosevelt in New York City by Ethnic Group,

TABLE 10. 1969 Mayoral Election Results by Ethnicity,

In the course of writing White Ethnic New York, I have incurred countless personal and intellectual debts. Whatever faults this book suffers are my responsibility alone, but whatever strengths it possesses are very much the collective achievement of many friends and colleagues.

First thanks go to Jim Patterson, who has been a great supporter of this project, and whose balance of intellectual rigor and steadfast encouragement helped me see the book to print. Over the past several years I have been lucky to count Jim as a friend and colleague, and I can only hope that the final product lives up to his high example.

I owe a deep debt of gratitude to members of the Brown University community. Howard Chudacoff and Maud Mandel were a steady source of sage advice and probing criticism. Mike Vorenberg read sections of the manuscript and offered important early feedback that helped shape my approach to the revision process. Mike has also been a generous colleague and friend over the years. Like countless other Brown alumni, I will always remain indebted to Jack Thomas, whose dedication to teachingand to the life of the mindwas a source of inspiration to everyone who was lucky enough to sit in his classroom or spend an afternoon at his house discussing books, ideas, music, and other subjects. Jack passed away last year, but I am very pleased to acknowledge his role in seeing White Ethnic New York to fruition.

Since my graduate school days, and in these early years of my career, I have been lucky to be part of a close circle of friends. Jim Sparrow, Alan Petigny, Andrew Huebner, Liam Brockey, Nathaniel Frank, and Dave Hamlin continue to set a standard of academic excellence that I aspire to match as a writer and teacher, and their camaraderiepast and presenthas made my life a lot richer. To that list also belongs Robert Fleegler, who has been one of my closest friends for fifteen years. We have studied together and grown up together, and I have scarcely written a word that he has not read or developed an idea that he has not challenged. This book would look much differentand be far weakerwithout his influence and support.

Along the way, several scholars read and commented on this book. I am particularly indebted to Hasia Diner, Joshua Freeman, and Eli Lederhendler for their insights. I would also like to thank Bryant Simon, who painstakingly read through a full draft and provided extremely incisive, detailed comments for revision. At a joint Cambridge University-Boston University conference on political history, Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer offered probing questions based on a related paper. Julian also read and commented on the manuscript, which I greatly appreciate. Don Critchlow read the manuscript, too, and gave generously of his time and expertise on American conservatism. Above all, very special thanks go to Gerald Gamm and John McGreevy, who began their association with this project as University of North Carolina Press anonymous readers but soon broke anonymity to offer several pages of pointed criticism and advice. Since then, John has read subsequent drafts, helping me sharpen the chapters on urban Catholicism. I did not take all of his advice, but I tried to take most of it; much of what is strong about this book is the result of his input, as well as that of Gerald.

Several colleagues at Cambridge Universityparticularly Paul Warde, Jon Parry, and Mark Wormaldhave been very supportive of my career, as I have labored to make the transition from the American to the British academy. Pembroke College generously allowed me a terms leave to finish the manuscript, for which I am most grateful. John Thompson, a teacher and writer of great accomplishment, has been a source of encouragement and has asked challenging questions that helped sharpen my work; while, together, Tony and Ruth Badger have made sure that my life in Cambridge has been both intellectually and socially rich. At Oxford University, Jay Sexton, Stephen Tuck, Gareth Davies, and Richard Carwardine gave me an early opportunity to present parts of the book. Their questions and comments were of the highest caliber and informed many of my revisions.

My students at Brown, Harvard, and Cambridgesome of whom remain good friends, even as they have gone off in the world to start their own lives and careershave, in ways they probably do not always appreciate, contributed mightily to my intellectual development. They often helped me hash out some of the issues in this book, even if they did not know it. It has been a privilege to work with and know them all.

Grants from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, American Jewish Archives, John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Brown University, and American Academy for Jewish Research helped support the work that went into this book. I am also grateful to the staffs of the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library, American Jewish Archives, American Jewish Historical Society, Fordham University Library, Archives of the Diocese of Brooklyn, Columbia University Librarys Special Collections and Oral History departments, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and New York City Municipal Archives. Thanks also to Chris McNickle, who raided his private research collection and loaned me several remarkable, unpublished political polls dating from the early 1960s.