A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg by Michael Casper, Nathaniel Deutsch

A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

Michael Casper, Nathaniel Deutsch

384 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history race religion reflective medium-paced

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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 e...

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