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Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot.(Book review)

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot. By Edward Shapiro. Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2006. xviii + 252 pp.

Significant events like riots are not only part of history, they generate their own histories, and so it is with the in...

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...riot Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1991. When a member of the convoy escorting the Lubavitcher Hasidic Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson collided with an oncoming car, the resulting crash wounded one Guyanese child, Angela Cato, and killed her cousin, Gavin. Crowds gathered and became protesters; protesters became rioters....

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