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Squirrel Hill : the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting and the soul of a neighborhood / Mark Oppenheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oppenheimer, Mark, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tree of Life--Or L'Simcha Congregation (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
- Tree of Life - Or L'Simcha Congregation (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
- Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2018.
- Antisemitism--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Antisemitism.
- Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)--Ethnic relations.
- Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
- Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one. Mark Oppenheimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and instead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, teenagers and seniors, activists and historians. Together, these stories provide a kaleidoscopic and nuanced account of collective grief, love, support, and revival. But Oppenheimer also details the difficult dialogue and messy confrontations that Squirrel Hill had to face in the process of healing, and that are a necessary part of true growth and understanding in any community. He has reverently captured the vibrancy and caring that still characterize Squirrel Hill, and it is this phenomenal resilience that can provide inspiration to any place burdened with discrimination and hate.
- Notes:
- "This Is A Borzoi Book"
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Oppenheimer, Mark, 1974- Squirrel Hill
- ISBN:
- 9780525657200
- 0525657207
- Publisher Number:
- 40030786085
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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