New world Hasidim: ethnographic studies of Hasidic Jews in America

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Contributors: Belcove-Shalin, Janet S. (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Albany State University of New York Press (c)1995
In:Year: 1995
Series/Journal:SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Hassidism
B USA / Khabad
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Hasidism (United States) Social conditions
B Jews (United States) Politics and government
B Jews ; Politics and government
B United States
B Hasidism Social conditions United States
B Habad
B Hasidism
B Hasidism (United States)
B Jews Politics and government United States
B Habad United States
B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
B Hasidim ; Social conditions
B Habad (United States)
B United States Ethnic relations
B Electronic books
B Hasidism United States
B Ethnic Relations
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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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.
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:0585043558