Attacks (since 1970)
Crown Heights Riots
19-21 août 1991·Crown Heights (New York)
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three days of antisemitic riots in the Hasidic neighborhood after a traffic accident, a Jewish student stabbed to death
Three days of riots followed in Crown Heights, after a traffic accident in which a child was killed by a car from the Rabbi of Lubavitch's motorcade. Groups roamed the neighborhood attacking Jewish residents; a student who had come from Australia was stabbed to death.
This Brooklyn neighborhood was home to a Hasidic community and an Afro-Caribbean community living side by side. The riots were long described as a clash between neighbors, before the antisemitic dimension was recognized as such by the New York State inquiry commission.
- Period :
- Attacks (since 1970)
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Americas
- Country :
- États-Unis
Rapport Girgenti, State of New York ; presse américaine contemporaine.