Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. Gurock served from 1982-2002 as associate editor of American Jewish History the leading academic journal in that field and was twice chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is the author or editor of eighteen books. His works include The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967, Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports, The Colonial and Early National Period 1654-1840: American Jewish History (The Modern Jewish Experience), The Wide World of Central Synagogue, and A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordechai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (Columbia U. Press, 1997). In 1998, A Modern Heretic was awarded the bi-annual Saul Viener Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society for the best book written in that field. Gurock’s Orthodox Jews in America (Indiana U. Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the area of American Jewish Studies. His study, Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 (City of Promises) (NYU Press, 2012) received the Everett Family Foundation Award for the best non-fiction Jewish book of 2012 from the Jewish Book Council. His most recent book is The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community (NYU Press, 2017). Gurock has been an athlete all his life, playing a variety of sports as a kid. He played on the lacrosse team at City College, he served as assistant men’s basketball coach at Yeshiva University for over 25 years, and he has run over 275 road races of varying distance (including the New York City Marathon 12 times and the Boston marathon twice – in total, he has run over 30,000 miles in the last 30 years!).