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A fortress in Brooklyn : race, real estate, and the making of Hasidic Williamsburg Cover Image

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A fortress in Brooklyn : race, real estate, and the making of Hasidic Williamsburg

Deutsch, Nathaniel (author.). Casper, Michael, (author.).

Summary: Hasidic Williamsburg is famous as one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy communities in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of New York City's toughest neighborhoods during an era of steep decline, only to later oppose and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a community of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely resisted the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg's Hasidim avoided assimilation, Deutsch and Casper present both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race, real estate, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential, and yet deeply misunderstood, New York neighborhood.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300231090
ISBN: 0300231091
ISBN: 9780300258370
ISBN: 0300258372
Physical Description: 1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations, maps
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
Copyright: �2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:june.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map -- Introduction An American Epic -- 1. A Land Not Sown -- 2. Paths of Heave -- 3. The Politics of Poverty -- 4. Chaptsem! -- 5. The Gentrifier and the Gentrified -- 6. The War Against the Artists -- 7. A Fruit Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- 8. The Holy Corner -- 9. Two-Way Street -- 10. New Williamsburg -- Conclusion The Camp in the Desert -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2021).