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History of the Jews in the USA
The Jewish population of the United states of America, one of the largest Jewish diasporas, has traditionally been tightly integrated into the American society.
1492–1906
Main article: History of the Jews in the United States (Colonial Era-1906)
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Crown Heights Pogrom
- 19-22 Aug 1991 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. The pogrom began on August 19 when a Hasidic Jewish motorist accidentally struck and killed Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old African American boy. In revenge, an angry mob of black youths began assaulting Jews in the neighborhood, the population of which was about evenly divided between blacks and mostly Hasidic Jews; in one such attack, Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old rabbinical student visiting from Australia, was stabbed to death, and an undetermined number of Jews were seriously injured as the assaults continued for four consecutive nights (a non-Jewish motorist who had apparently gotten lost in the neighborhood, Anthony Graziosi, was also fatally attacked, presumably because he had a full beard and was wearing dark clothing and was thus mistaken for a Hasidic Jew).
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