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When Jewish Neighborhoods Disappeared, Crown Heights Remained
The history of Brooklyn's best-known ḥasidic community.
In 1940, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, rebbe of the Lubavitch Ḥasidim, relocated his court from Warsaw to the United States, settling not in one of Brooklyn’s Orthodox enclaves but in the middle-class Crown Heights neighborhood. His son-in-law and successor, the late Menachem Mendel Schneerson, insisted on remaining there long after most of the neighborhood’s non-Lubavitch Jews had left, and despite rising crime rates and urban disfunction. On the 30th anniversary of the Crown Heights pogrom, Dovid Margolin considers the history of this still-thriving Chabad-Lubavitch community:
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When Jewish Neighborhoods Disappeared, Crown Heights Remained
The history of Brooklyn's best-known ḥasidic community.