Nathaniel Deutsch's guest appearances

Nathaniel Deutsch

New Books in Jewish Studies

New Books in History

New Books in American Studies

New Books Network

Rosner's Domain

New Books in Urban Studies

Julian E. Zelizer

Alexander Hamilton

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Andrew Porwancher

Gil Troy

Fred Amram

David Ellenson

Daniel Schwartz

Rafael Medoff

Deborah Lipstadt

Steve Sheinkin

Sarah Imhoff

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jaclyn Granick

Sara Hirschhorn

OwlTail

Michael Casper

Hasidic Williamsburg

The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood.In A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg (Yale University Press, 2021), Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification.Interviewee: Nathaniel Deutsch is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood.In <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9780300231090" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg </a>(Yale University Press, 2021), Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification.Interviewee: Nathaniel Deutsch is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at <a href="http://ZalmanNewfield.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ZalmanNewfield.com</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies</a>

Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper, "A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg" (Yale UP, 2021)

Michael Caspe

Shmuel Rosner, Michael Caspe and Nathaniel Deutsch discuss their book: "A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg."       Nathaniel Deutsch is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his books are The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Michael Casper received his Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has contributed to American Jewish History and the New York Review of Books.        Follow Shmuel Rosner on Twitter.

Shmuel Rosner, Michael Caspe and Nathaniel Deutsch discuss their book: "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Brooklyn-Estate-Hasidic-Williamsburg/dp/0300231091" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg</a>."   Nathaniel Deutsch is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his books are The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Michael Casper received his Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has contributed to American Jewish History and the New York Review of Books.   Follow Shmuel Rosner on <a href="https://jjpn.studio/ShmuelRosnerTwitter" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.

Michael Caspe and Nathaniel Deutsch: A fortress in Brooklyn