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Title New world Hasidim : ethnographic studies of Hasidic Jews in America / edited by Janet S. Belcove-Shalin
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies
SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies.
Contents Boundaries and self-presentation among the Hasidim : a study in identity maintenance / William Shaffir -- HaBaD & Habban : "770's" impact on a Yemenite Jewish community in Israel / Laurence D. Loeb -- Language of the heart : music in Lubavitcher life / Ellen Koskoff -- Varieties of fundamentalist experience : Lubavitch Hasidic and fundamentalist Christian approaches to contemporary family life / Lynn Davidman and Janet Stocks -- Engendering orthodoxy : newly orthodox women and Hasidism / Debra R. Kaufman -- Agents or victims of religious ideology? : approaches to locating Hasidic women in feminist studies / Bonnie Morris -- Economic revitalization of the Hasidic community of Williamsburg / George Kranzler -- Home in exile : Hasidism in the New World / Janet S. Belcove-Shalin -- Bobover Hasidism Piremshpiyl : from folk drama for Purim to a ritual of transcending the Holocaust / Shifra Epstein / Charismatic leader of the Hasidic community : the Zaddiq, the Rebbe / Solomon Poll
Summary Annotation Hasidim has long been the subject of historical, philosophical, and literary accounts, but it is only in recent years that it has begun to attract the close attention of social scientists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Hasidism -- United States
Hasidism -- United States -- Social conditions
Jews -- United States -- Politics and government
Habad -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Ethnic relations
Habad
Hasidim -- Social conditions
Hasidism
Jews -- Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Belcove-Shalin, Janet S., 1954-
ISBN 0585043558
9780585043555
9780791422458
0791422453
9780791422465
0791422461
0791496201
9780791496206