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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Prologue: “Blacks” and “Jews” at the Laundromat 1 Introduction: Race, Religion, and the Contest over Black-Jewish Difference in Crown Heights 5 1 Collisions: Race and Religion, a Riot and a Pogrom 36 2 Geographies of Difference: Producing a Jewish Neighborhood 76 3 Kosher Homes, Racial Boundaries: The Politics of Culinary and Cultural Exchange 116 4 White Skin, Black Hats, and Other Signs of Jews 161 5 The Voices of Jacob on the Streets of Brooklyn: Israelite Histories and Identities 199 Conclusion: “Stiffnecked Peoples” and American Multiculturalism 234 Notes 239 Index 273 vii ...

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