Race And Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights (repost)

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Race And Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights By Henry Goldschmidt
Publisher: Rutgers University Press 2006-10-25 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 0813538831 | PDF | 1 MB

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…