Henry Goldschmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 154698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry Goldschmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldschmidt |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSCHMIDT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights
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 boy struck by a car in the motorcade of a Hasidic spiritual leader and an orthodox Jew stabbed by a Black teenager. The ensuing unrest thrust the tensions between the Lubavitch Hasidic community and their Afro-Caribbean and African American neighbors into the media spotlight, spurring local a…
Guatemalan Adoption
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Black and Jewish Israelites in and around Crown Heights
In this article, I show how categories of identity formation such as "race,""religion,""Blackness," and "Jewishness" may be used-often in tandem-as historiographic tools, helping communities lay claim to contested pasts. I examine the historiographic discourses of Blacks and Jews in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, focusing on the competing claims of Israelite descent advanced by the Lubavitch Hasidim and the Black Hebrew Israelites. A…
Race, nation, and religion in the Americas
A collection of new essays exploring the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion. Drawing on original research, the authors investigate how race and religion have defined global relations, shaped the everyday lives of individuals and communities and how communities use religion to contest the power of racism
Crown Heights is the Center of the World: Reterritorializing a Jewish Diaspora
A story is sometimes told about a disciple of the Baal Shem ??? (the eighteenth-century founder of Hasidic Judaism) who yearned to see the Holy Land—or at least the story was told to me, one night in 1997, by a Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, the multiracial neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where many Lubavitch Hasidim make their homes
"Responsibility to the "Adjunct Caste
Crown Heights is the Center of the World: Reterritorializing a Jewish Diaspora
A story is sometimes told about a disciple of the Baal Shem ??? (the eighteenth-century founder of Hasidic Judaism) who yearned to see the Holy Land—or at least the story was told to me, one night in 1997, by a Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, the multiracial neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where many Lubavitch Hasidim make their homes
The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Black and Jewish Israelites in and around Crown Heights
In this article, I show how categories of identity formation such as "race,""religion,""Blackness," and "Jewishness" may be used-often in tandem-as historiographic tools, helping communities lay claim to contested pasts. I examine the historiographic discourses of Blacks and Jews in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, focusing on the competing claims of Israelite descent advanced by the Lubavitch Hasidim and the Black Hebrew Israelites. A…
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
"Responsibility to the "Adjunct Caste
Crown Heights is the Center of the World: Reterritorializing a Jewish Diaspora
A story is sometimes told about a disciple of the Baal Shem ??? (the eighteenth-century founder of Hasidic Judaism) who yearned to see the Holy Land—or at least the story was told to me, one night in 1997, by a Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, the multiracial neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where many Lubavitch Hasidim make their homes
Race, nation, and religion in the Americas
A collection of new essays exploring the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion. Drawing on original research, the authors investigate how race and religion have defined global relations, shaped the everyday lives of individuals and communities and how communities use religion to contest the power of racism
The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Black and Jewish Israelites in and around Crown Heights
In this article, I show how categories of identity formation such as "race,""religion,""Blackness," and "Jewishness" may be used-often in tandem-as historiographic tools, helping communities lay claim to contested pasts. I examine the historiographic discourses of Blacks and Jews in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, focusing on the competing claims of Israelite descent advanced by the Lubavitch Hasidim and the Black Hebrew Israelites. A…
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
Guatemalan Adoption
Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights
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 boy struck by a car in the motorcade of a Hasidic spiritual leader and an orthodox Jew stabbed by a Black teenager. The ensuing unrest thrust the tensions between the Lubavitch Hasidic community and their Afro-Caribbean and African American neighbors into the media spotlight, spurring local a…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · African americans (2 works)