Lis Harris

Lis Harris, a former longtime New Yorker staff writer, is a Professor and the Chair of the Writing Program in the School of the Arts at Columbia. Her most recent book is Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family.  (February 2022)

Strangers in a Strange Land

Two recent books investigate the canny mastery of housing politics that has allowed the Hasidic Satmar sect to build thriving, isolated communities in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

by Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper

American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York

by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers

February 24, 2022 issue

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