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Williamsburg was not unlike Melbourne’s ‘Shtetl of the Yarra’ with one difference: it was poor and abandoned by Jews who could afford to move to better neighbourhoods. In their wake was a neighbourhood of African Americans, Puerto Ricans and ultraorthodox Hasidic Jews. Like many other slum kids, I grew up in a rundown late nineteenth century three-storey walk-up tenement.
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Karger, H. (2015). From the Shtetl to the Academy. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_17
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