American Jewish History

Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-
The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis, and: Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (review)
American Jewish History - Volume 91, Number 1, March 2003, pp. 176-180

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Deborah Dash Moore - The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis, and: Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (review) - American Jewish History 91:1 American Jewish History 91.1 (2003) 176-180 The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis. By Jerald E. Podair. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xi + 273 pp. Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto. By Wendell Pritchett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 333 pp. Brownsville, Brooklyn is slowly acquiring iconic status. Long in the Lower East Side's shadow, Brownsville has gradually emerged as a New York City neighborhood with distinctive messages for historians. Unlike the Manhattan immigrant section, Brownsville has attracted scholars interested in the children of immigrants, the second generation. Attention began with Gerald Sorin's The Nurturing Neighborhood: The Brownsville Boys Club and Jewish Community in Urban America, 1940 -1990 (1990 ), a study of adolescent culture and neighborhood change that emphasized cohesive ties and collective responsibility among the area's working-class population. Carole Bell Ford followed Sorin's lead in her book, The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940 -1995 (1999 ), which explored the differences gender made for this generation of Jews. Both authors tracked their subjects after...