Henry Goldschmidt is an assistant professor of religion and society at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He is the coeditor (with Elizabeth McAlister) of Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas.

Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights is a richly sustained and critically insightful ethnography of the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights. Henry Goldschmidt has done an excellent job of creating an account that reflects the Lubavitchers' worldview and simultaneously gives voice to their neighbors. - Jonathan Boyarin (Distinguished Profesor of Modern Jewish Studies, University of Kansas) This volume is an excellently written and researched look at Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the Jewish communities that live there: the orthodox Lubavitch and the African Americans who consider themselves to be descendents of ancient Hebrew Israelites. An incredibly important contribution to religious studies, critical race theory, anthropology, and urban studies, Goldschmidt has produced a powerful work that will be read and appreciated by academics and general readers alike. - John L. Jackson, Jr. (author of Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity)

• AcknowledgementsPrologue: "Blacks" and "Jews" at the LaundromatIntroduction: Race, Religion, and the Contest over Black-Jewish Difference in Crown Heights1 Collisions: Race and Religion, a Riot and a Program2 Geographies of Difference: Producing a Jewish Neighborhood3 Kosher Homes, Racial Boundaries: The Politics of Culinary and Cultural Exchange4 White Skin, Black Hats, and Other Signs of Jews5 The Voices of Jacob on the Streets of Brooklyn: Israelite Histories and IdentitiesConclusion: "Stiffnecked Peoples" and American MulticulturalismNotesIndex

Henry Goldschmidt is an assistant professor of religion and society at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He is the coeditor (with Elizabeth McAlister) of Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas.

Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights is a richly sustained and critically insightful ethnography of the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights. Henry Goldschmidt has done an excellent job of creating an account that reflects the Lubavitchers' worldview and simultaneously gives voice to their neighbors. - Jonathan Boyarin (Distinguished Profesor of Modern Jewish Studies, University of Kansas) This volume is an excellently written and researched look at Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the Jewish communities that live there: the orthodox Lubavitch and the African Americans who consider themselves to be descendents of ancient Hebrew Israelites. An incredibly important contribution to religious studies, critical race theory, anthropology, and urban studies, Goldschmidt has produced a powerful work that will be read and appreciated by academics and general readers alike. - John L. Jackson, Jr. (author of Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity)

• AcknowledgementsPrologue: "Blacks" and "Jews" at the LaundromatIntroduction: Race, Religion, and the Contest over Black-Jewish Difference in Crown Heights1 Collisions: Race and Religion, a Riot and a Program2 Geographies of Difference: Producing a Jewish Neighborhood3 Kosher Homes, Racial Boundaries: The Politics of Culinary and Cultural Exchange4 White Skin, Black Hats, and Other Signs of Jews5 The Voices of Jacob on the Streets of Brooklyn: Israelite Histories and IdentitiesConclusion: "Stiffnecked Peoples" and American MulticulturalismNotesIndex

Henry Goldschmidt is an assistant professor of religion and society at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He is the coeditor (with Elizabeth McAlister) of Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas.

Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights is a richly sustained and critically insightful ethnography of the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights. Henry Goldschmidt has done an excellent job of creating an account that reflects the Lubavitchers' worldview and simultaneously gives voice to their neighbors. - Jonathan Boyarin (Distinguished Profesor of Modern Jewish Studies, University of Kansas) This volume is an excellently written and researched look at Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and the Jewish communities that live there: the orthodox Lubavitch and the African Americans who consider themselves to be descendents of ancient Hebrew Israelites. An incredibly important contribution to religious studies, critical race theory, anthropology, and urban studies, Goldschmidt has produced a powerful work that will be read and appreciated by academics and general readers alike. - John L. Jackson, Jr. (author of Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity)

• AcknowledgementsPrologue: "Blacks" and "Jews" at the LaundromatIntroduction: Race, Religion, and the Contest over Black-Jewish Difference in Crown Heights1 Collisions: Race and Religion, a Riot and a Program2 Geographies of Difference: Producing a Jewish Neighborhood3 Kosher Homes, Racial Boundaries: The Politics of Culinary and Cultural Exchange4 White Skin, Black Hats, and Other Signs of Jews5 The Voices of Jacob on the Streets of Brooklyn: Israelite Histories and IdentitiesConclusion: "Stiffnecked Peoples" and American MulticulturalismNotesIndex