The first full-length scholarly study of the only antisemitic riot in American history

In August of 1991, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights was engulfed in violence following the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum—a West Indian b

Inside the hidden world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit but divided community. On a cold night in December, the members of a Hasidic a

Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguis

The story of the Crown Heights murder of black youngster Gavin Cato, and a rabbinical student shortly afterwards. No Monopoly on Suffering attempts to set the r