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Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (Historical Studies of Urban America) (Updated Edition) by Wendell E. Pritchett Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-226-68447-4 / 0226684474 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-68447-5 / 9780226684475 From its founding in the late 1800s through the 1950s, Brownsville, a section of eastern Brooklyn, was a white, predominantly Jewish, working-class neighborhood. The famous New York district nurtured the aspirations of thousands of upwardly mobile Americans while the infamous gangsters of Murder, In |