From its founding in the late seventeenth century, Newark, New Jersey, was a vibrant and representative center of Jewish life in America. Geographically and cul

The first major empirical study of the long-term effects of the incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II

"In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighbor

Recounts the history of the Jewish community in Newark, N.J., as the surrounding neighborhoods changed from white to African American and Hispanic