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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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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 relationsPlaces
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The pious ones: the world of Hasidim and their battles with America
2014
in English
- First edition.
0062123343 9780062123343
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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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