No Monopoly on Suffering: Blacks and Jews in Crown Heights (And Elsewhere) [Hardcover]

Herbert D., Sr. Daughtry (Author)

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From Library Journal

Reading this book is like being present at another family's quarrel. Charges are made, tempers are high, and resolution seems impossible. The author, the pastor of Brooklyn's House of the Lord Pentecostal Church and cofounder of the New York Ebonics Movement, enumerates the past wrongs and questionable motives of the Crown Heights Hasidic community and former Mayor Ed Koch. While delineating the history of misunderstandings and confrontation between African Americans and Jews in Crown Heights, especially during the Brooklyn neighborhood's tragic events of 1991, Daughtry fumes over each perceived slight and quotes extensively from his personal papers and letters covering his four decades as pastor. Readers who want a more balanced account of the historical conflict in Crown Heights will have to wait. Not recommended.?Nora Harris, Marin Cty. Free Lib., San Rafael, Cal.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Pentecostal minister Daughtry, a founder of the Black United Front, first in New York and then nationally, has been active in civil rights battles for decades, often, in the process, being labeled a "black anti-Semite." In No Monopoly, he describes those battles and challenges that label. From the struggle over community control of public schools in Ocean Hill-Brownsville to face-offs with Mayor Ed Koch and other politicians to explosive tension and violence between African Americans and Jews in Crown Heights in 1991, Daughtry maintains that his justified criticism of specific Jewish people (some United Federation of Teachers officers and members, Crown Heights' Lubavitcher Hasidim) has been deliberately misapplied (for example, by the tabloid New York Post and writer Ken Auletta) to all Jews. Daughtry's style is choppy, and letters to the editors of publications that have misrepresented his views or actions constitute too much of the Crown Heights section of the book. Still, Daughtry's story is of more than regional interest. Mary Carroll

Product Details

• Hardcover: 290 pages
• Publisher: Africa World Pr (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865435863
• ISBN-13: 978-0865435865
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,321,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Another resource., July 20, 2011

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This review is from: No Monopoly on Suffering: Blacks and Jews in Crown Heights (And Elsewhere) (Hardcover)

Due to the lack of objectivity of this author one may look to balance the perspective with another study on this event. One can read Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life) by Edward S. Shapiro. True it is written by a Jewish academician, but he tries to be fair in his assessments of all, and does a good job of pointing out the flaws of both sides and their politics or lack thereof.