Monday, December 23
7:00 pm ET | Live on Zoom
On the evening of August 19, 1991, in Crown Heights, New York, Yosef Lifsh ran a red light and crashed his car. A seven-year-old Guyanese immigrant, Gavin Cato, was killed instantly, while his sister was severely injured. What followed was the worst anti-Semitic riot in history.
The Crown Heights riot of 1991 saw black residents attack Orthodox Jews while police stood down. For almost three days, rioters destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and institutions. One Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum, was murdered by a group of twenty black men chanting “get the Jew!”
The riot was a touchstone moment in the history of black-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism in America, and American race relations more broadly.
On Monday evening at 7 pm ET, Mosaic is excited to offer subscribers an exclusive screening of a short new documentary on the riot, Get the Jew: The Crown Heights Riot Revisited.
Along with documentary, there will be an introduction from the film’s director, Michael Pack, and a conversation afterwards between Elliot Kaufman, the Wall Street Journal letters editor who appears in the film, and Mosaic‘s editor Jonathan Silver. They’ll discuss the major questions about the event, its significance today, and what it portends for the Jewish future in America.
How to Join:
This event is available to all Mosaic subscribers. If you’re not yet a Mosaic subscriber, click here and fill out your information, then we’ll send you the details to join us.
If you’re already a Mosaic subscriber, register using the form below. We look forward to seeing you on Monday evening.
And if you have any questions, email us at [email protected].