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Henry Goldschmidt
Henry Goldschmidt is Assistant Professor of Religion and Society at Wesleyan University. He has taught cultural anthropology, Jewish studies, and diaspora studies at Rutgers University, Dickinson College, and elsewhere. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2000. His forthcoming book, Race, Religion and Other Differences Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights (Rutgers University Press, to appear in 2006) deals with Jewish identities and Black-Jewish differences in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a neighborhood known for its history of conflict between Lubavitch Hasidic Jews and their predominantly Afro-Caribbean neighbors, most notably in the deadly violence of August 1991. He is the co-editor (with Elizabeth McAlister) of the collection Race, Nation and Religion in the America (Oxford University Press, 2004). His work on Crown Heights has appeared in Diaspora and several edited collections. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, Jillian Shagan.
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