Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights /

Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights / / Henry Goldschmidt.

In August of 1991, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was engulfed in violence following the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum-a West Indian boy struck by a car in the motorcade of a Hasidic spiritual leader and an orthodox Jew stabbed by a Black teenager. The ensuing unrest thrust t...

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Goldschmidt, Henry,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 19
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: "Blacks" and "Jews" at the Laundromat
  • Introduction: Race, Religion, and the Contest over Black-Jewish Difference in Crown Heights
  • 1. Collisions: Race and Religion, a Riot and a Pogrom
  • 2. Geographies of Difference: Producing a Jewish Neighborhood
  • 3. Kosher Homes, Racial Boundaries: The Politics of Culinary and Cultural Exchange
  • 4. White Skin, Black Hats, and Other Signs of Jews
  • 5. The Voices of Jacob on the Streets of Brooklyn: Israelite Histories and Identities
  • Conclusion: "Stiffnecked Peoples" and American Multiculturalism
  • Notes
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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