Law in Politics: Struggles over Property and Public Space on New York City's Lower East Side

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Brigham ◽  
Diana R. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Social Scientific

This article examines politics on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, for evidence of law at the constitutive level. We see legal relations shaping grassroots struggles over public space and housing as forums, claims, and political positions. This view challenges instrumental conceptions of law still prominent in some social-scientific approaches.

Hibernians Versus Hebrews? A New Look at the 1902 Jacob Joseph Funeral Riot

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward T. O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Look

On July 29, 1902 a massive funeral procession for Jacob Joseph, the esteemed Chief Rabbi of the Orthodox community, wound its way through the streets of New York's Lower East Side. The solemn occasion was marred, however, when the procession was attacked by a group of factory workers. As the melee blossomed into a full-scale riot, a contingent of New York City policemen arrived and proceeded to pummel and arrest the mourners rather than the instigators. Historians have consistendy cited this ugly incident as a vivid example of Irish Catholic antisemitism, noting that both the workers and policemen were “predominantly Irish.” Indeed, it was a quest to learn more about the roots of Irish Catholic antisemitism that drew this historian to the subject. And yet, a thorough examination of the incident produced a startling result: a dearth of Irish defendants and a flawed historiography that ultimately call into question the validity of the Jacob Joseph Funeral Riot as an example of Irish Catholic antisemitism.

Outreach to injecting drug users and female sexual partners of drug users on the Lower East Side of New York City

Addiction ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 681-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABU S. ABDUL-QUADER ◽  
DON C. JARLAIS ◽  
SUSAN TROSS ◽  
EDWARD McCOY ◽  
GREGORY MORALES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Injecting Drug Users ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side

Undoing Jewish Ethnography

transversal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Jonathan Boyarin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Adult Learner ◽  
Mature Male ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork

Abstract In this paper, a long-time resident of the Lower East Side of New York City reflects on his experiences as an adult “learner” in his neighborhood yeshiva. The questions addressed in this narrative autoethnography include: What are the forms of self-making that shared study of Rabbinic texts affords? What is the range of intellectual freedom, and how does this interact with the formal and informal hierarchies of the place? What is the balance, for a mature male Jewish ethnographer, of anthropological fieldwork and study “for its own sake” in this setting? Throughout, the emphasis is on the commonalities shared by the ethnographer and his fellows at the yeshiva, rather than on the putative process of crossing cultural bridges.

Co-production of public space: policy translations from New York City to the Netherlands

2016 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne van Melik ◽  
Erwin van der Krabben
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Space Policy
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