A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg by Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper Sale Books had been cruelly taken from

had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government

They make the letters come alive

organized a general strike of Jewish tailors

eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards

It is the story of Jews struggling to understand the new realities of their post-Holocaust world and of Western society’s gradual realization of the magnitude of devastation wrought by World War II

A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg by Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper Sale Books had been cruelly taken fromThe epic story of Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn "Groundbreaking. . . . To fully understand Satmar, of course, one has to be born into it. But to understand how political prowess and real estate know how shaped the groups current iteration in Brooklyn, it would be wise to start with this outstanding book."Laura E. Adkins, LA Review of Books