{"product_id":"a-fortress-in-brooklyn-nathaniel-deutsch-9780300268072","title":"A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe epic story of Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Groundbreaking. . . . To fully understand Satmar, of course, one has to be born into it. But to understand how political prowess and real-estate know-how shaped the group's current iteration in Brooklyn, it would be wise to start with this outstanding book.\"--Laura E. Adkins, \u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed 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 rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300268076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300268072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.11w x 1.13d","brand":"Nathaniel Deutsch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070640615679,"sku":"9780300268072","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bac00e53-6d65-4a6d-90fc-512d172ca877.jpg?v=1685431502","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-fortress-in-brooklyn-nathaniel-deutsch-9780300268072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}