Crown Heights, located in Brooklyn, is known to be a diverse neighborhood. It is notoriously known to an unsafe and run-down neighborhood, but the recent gentrification of the neighborhood is proving its reputation wrong. There have been numerous reports of tension and anti-Semitism between the Black people and Jews in Crown Heights. One of the main incidents that occurred between them is the August 1991 riot, which was said by Henry Goldschmidt, a scholarly author and researcher, to be the most anti-Semitic riot in all of history. The riot reflected the social, cultural and political struggle between the two different ethnic groups. Although, there has been conflicts in the past, the racial tension has been eased and the two groups are able
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For example, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem are associated with the Black people while immigrants are linked with neighborhoods such as China Town or the Lower East Side. Furthermore, African Americans and Hasidic Jews are linked with Crown Heights. The majority of the Jews live on the south side of Crown Heights, which actually differs from its surrounding areas in regard to race, religion, and social living conditions. Most of the Jews live on Kingston Avenue, between Troy Avenue and New York Avenue. The six blocks of Kingston between Eastern Parkway and Empire Boulevard are home to many Jewish community-related places, and Hasidic owned stores, some of them which cater to the Jewish needs for kosher food, religious texts, and ritual items. The Hasidim make up about 40 percent of the population in that area of Crown …show more content…
It is even said that Reverend Al Sharpton brought in busloads of teenage demonstrators who had soon become violent (Goldschmidt 81). The Black people, neighbors of the Jews in Crown Heights, were not the ones who started the riot; in fact they were hiding in their homes for safety. This shows that although Jews and black people did have tension between them for various reasons, they didn’t hate them enough to start the riot. Rather, outside sources had a motive to spread anti-Semitism and therefore instigated the
For example, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem are associated with the Black people while immigrants are linked with neighborhoods such as China Town or the Lower East Side. Furthermore, African Americans and Hasidic Jews are linked with Crown Heights. The majority of the Jews live on the south side of Crown Heights, which actually differs from its surrounding areas in regard to race, religion, and social living conditions. Most of the Jews live on Kingston Avenue, between Troy Avenue and New York Avenue. The six blocks of Kingston between Eastern Parkway and Empire Boulevard are home to many Jewish community-related places, and Hasidic owned stores, some of them which cater to the Jewish needs for kosher food, religious texts, and ritual items. The Hasidim make up about 40 percent of the population in that area of Crown …show more content…
It is even said that Reverend Al Sharpton brought in busloads of teenage demonstrators who had soon become violent (Goldschmidt 81). The Black people, neighbors of the Jews in Crown Heights, were not the ones who started the riot; in fact they were hiding in their homes for safety. This shows that although Jews and black people did have tension between them for various reasons, they didn’t hate them enough to start the riot. Rather, outside sources had a motive to spread anti-Semitism and therefore instigated the