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Bezig met laden... A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburgdoor Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was a slog. As a textbook, it’s incredibly detailed and well-researched. But leisure reading of textbooks isn’t really my thing. ( ) This is a mostly fascinating history of the Satmar's hold on Williamsburg, and the existential threat posed by the hipster invasion. Be warned that this is an academic history. For those of us used to getting our nonfiction from journalists trained to engage the reader it is a whole different experience to read a work of thorough scholarship intended to inform and not to entertain. It some ways this is a wonderful shift which delivers a great deal of foundational information which lends the necessary context to understand the ways in which the Satmar have worked the system to their advantage and also to the impacts of gentrification, both positive and negative. (I know I am supposed to hate all gentrification. I do not.) The downside of going from pop history to academic history is that there are stretches of the book essential to solid scholarship that while good for the reader are also dead boring. Several of the Hasidim interviewed in this book mention that they consider Jews who choose not to isolate themselves and engage in 24-7 19th century cosplay to be their greatest enemies, and I am not sure they are wrong. As one of those Jews, I will say that I have a lot of issues with the way the Haredi impact my life as a Jew and as a New Yorker and this book intensified my frustrations. Nonetheless this is an important read recommended for anyone interested in NY real estate, public housing, and public accommodations. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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