Brooklyn | United States

Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Rimon Lounge in the Hillel Building, 565 Mayfield Ave Stanford's Taube Center for Jewish Studies, The Program on Urban Studies, and the Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies at the Graduate School of Education invite you to a conversation about race and real estate in Brooklyn New York, with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch. 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. Join Professor Nathaniel Deutsch for a discussion of his book, "A Fortress in Brooklyn" (Yale University Press, 2021), which unravels the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, an...