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New world Hasidim : ethnographic studies of Hasidic Jews in America / edited by Janet S. Belcove-Shalin.

Contributor(s): Belcove-Shalin, Janet S, 1954-
Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies: Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0791422461 (pbk.); 0791422453Subject(s): Hasidism -- United States | Hasidism -- United States -- Social conditions | Jews -- United States -- Politics and government | Habad -- United States | United States -- Ethnic relationsDDC classification: 305.6/96 LOC classification: BM198 | .N38 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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