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The pious ones

the world of Hasidim and their battles with America

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An edition of The pious ones (2014)

The pious ones

the world of Hasidim and their battles with America

First edition.

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"As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to record proportions after near-extinction during the Holocaust, award-winning New York Times journalist and author Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles--and the social and political implications of their expanding presence in America"--

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English
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370

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Social life and customs, Jews, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Social conditions, Hasidim, Religious, Ethnic relations, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Jews, united states, social life and customs, New york (n.y.), social conditions, United states, ethnic relations
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New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York

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Table of Contents

Prologue: A people apart
A woman of valor, a Hasidic life
Yitta's golden land
And when the rebbe sings
Rebbes and rebels
Modern miracles
A ghetto grows in Brooklyn
The way you wear your hat
A working holiday
Kosher sex
The unkosher variety
Rebels with a cause
A modern mensch
Joseph is yet alive
Sacred work
Schools of thought
The Jewish Rosa Parks
This property is condemned
Schools for scandal
Cain and Abel in Brooklyn
The law in these here parts
The Borscht belt redux.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
973/.04924
Library of Congress
F128.9.J5 B43956 2014, F128.9.J5B43956 2014

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370 pages ;
Number of pages
370

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OL26520063M
ISBN 10
0062123343, 0062123351
ISBN 13
9780062123343, 9780062123350
LCCN
2014011724
OCLC/WorldCat
870290471

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