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307 Page numbers in italics refer to a figure or a caption on the page. 9/11 attack, 220, 252 47th Street Photo (retailer), 167 1965 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 144–145 1969 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 144–147 1977 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 185–186 1981 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 175 1985 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 176 1987 stock market crash, 176 1989 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 177–179, 215–216 1993 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 216–217 1997 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 218–219 1999 N.Y.C. blackout, 219 Abrams, Robert, 154 Abzug, Bella: 1970 congressional election, 186; campaign poster, 245, 245–246; Chisholm, Shirley, 187; Columbia University Law School, 245; feminism, 186, 188; Friedan, Betty, 187; Hashomer Hatzair, 194; Hunter College, 185, 245; Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), 194; Jewishness, 194; McCarthyism, 186; McGee, Willie, 245–246; National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC), 187, 246; political activism, 185–186; Socialism/Socialists, 246; South Bronx, 185; Women’s Strike for Peace, 186; Zionism/Zionists, 194, 246 ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 249 Adler, Stella, 22 advertising, 243–245 African-American Teachers’ Association, 138 African Americans, 34–37, 130–148, 175–183; 1969 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 147; antiSemitism , 139, 142–143; black Judaism, 227, 289n8; Bloomberg, Michael R., 222; Bronx “slave market,” 36; Brooklyn, 120–121; Brownsville (Brooklyn), 130, 131, 132; civil rights movement, 228; Co-op City, 161; domestic laborers, 36, 121, 130; East Tremont Avenue (Bronx), 129; FHA (Federal Housing Authority) programs, 131–132; garment industry, 162; gentrification, 3; Giuliani, Rudolph, 219; Grand Concourse (Bronx), 120–121, 144, 155; Harlem (Manhattan ), 15, 34–35; homelessness, 176; Israel, 139; Italian Americans, 147–148; Jewish Americans, 137; Jewish New Yorkers, 34–37, 125, 133–134, 135, 156, 179–183, 229; Koch, Edward I., 175–178; manufacturing jobs, 153–154; migrants from the South, 130–131; Parkchester (Bronx), 134–135, 159; residential discrimination by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 134; residential discrimination in Washington Heights, 15; Third World, identification with, 139–140; unions, 162 Ageloff, Samuel, 21 Ageloff Towers (Manhattan), 21, 24 Agudath ha-Rabbanim, 82, 93 Agudath Israel, 75, 78, 82 Ahavas Israel Synagogue (Brooklyn), 223 Allen, Woody, 170–171 Allen Street (Lower East Side), 17 Amalgamated Bank, 16 Amalgamated Clothing Workers Cooperative (Lower East Side), 22–23, 24, 29, 227 Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, 16, 110, 162 America First Committee, 65 American Artists’ Congress, 238 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 141 American Jewish Committee: Crown Heights riot/rebellion (1991), 181–182; elite leadership , 73; Forest Hills low-income housing dispute, 148 American Jewish Conference (1943), 78, 91 American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry (AJCSJ), 198, 202 American Jewish Congress: Ben-Gurion, David, 74; Crown Heights riot/rebellion (1991), 181; Madison Square Garden rallies, 76–77; rallies, 233; Revisionist Zionists, 74; I N D E X 308 ■ Index American Jewish Congress (continued) war-bond drives, 84; Wise, Stephen S., 74; Zionism/Zionists, 73 American Jewish World Service, 219 American Labor Party (ALP), 88 American League for Free Palestine, 97 American League for Peace and Democracy, 76 American Zionist Emergency Council, 74, 95–96 Amerks (nonviolent gang), 40, 41, 102 Amsterdam News (newspaper), 36, 133 Annie Hall (film), 171 Ansche Chesed (Manhattan), 148 Antar, Ezra “Crazy Eddie,” 167 anti-AIDS activism, 248–249 Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 113, 142, 148, 181–182 Anti-Nazis Hold Demonstration (photograph), 234 anti-Semitism: African Americans, 139, 142–143; America First Committee, 65; in Bronxville (New York), 102–103; Christian Front, 32–33; Christian Mobilizers, 32–33; Coughlin, Charles, 32–33; East Side Story (musical), 119; feminism, 188; Fieldston (Bronx), 128; Ocean Hill–Brownsville public school district (Brooklyn), 137; residential discrimination (see residential discrimination); Salk, Jonas, 51–52; Soviet Union, 208 anti-Zionism, Satmar Jews, 166 Appeal of Conscience, 206 Arafat, Yasir, 217, 218 Arbeter Ring (Workmen’s Circle), xviii, 54 Arrow, Kenneth, 49 Artists of the WPA (Soyer), 232 Artists’ Union, 233, 238, 289n9 Ascalon, Maurice, 235 Astoria (Queens), 10, 15 “Authentic New York Transit Map,” 12 Axelrod, Julius, 49 Badillo, Herman, 152 bagels, origins, 235 Baker, Belle, 56 Balfour Declaration (1917), 66–67 Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Goldin), 248, 249 Barnard College, 163 Baruch, Bernard, 88 Baruch College, 163–164 bat mitzvahs, 192–193, 195–196 Bayside (Queens), 105, 106, 215 Beame, Abraham D. (Abe): 1965 N.Y.C. mayoral election, 144, 147; Cosell, Howard, 151; fiscal crisis, xix–xx; photograph showing Daily News front...

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