Levine, Hillel, and Lawrence Harmon. The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions.

Free Press, New York, 1992. In it, Levine and Harmon write, “In Boston, arguably the country’s most insular city, nothing was more important than finding one’s niche.” The book describes the Boston Banks Urban Group program, an attempt to promote minority home ownership that ended up driving Boston’s Jewish community out of Mattapan. “By forcing blacks with home-ownership aspirations to compete in a limited geographic area,” Levine and Harmon write, “the B-BURG bankers created an eruption of panic selling, blockbusting, street violence, and rage.”